Errol Flynn Quotes
I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.
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I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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I would love to play alongside Wayne Rooney. He does the running of two or three players and makes a lot of space. We would be the perfect combination.
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I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
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The Flight 93 Memorial isn't that easy to get to. It isn't like the memorials in New York City or Washington, D.C., where you may go on a business trip or family vacation. No, in order to get to Shanksville, PA, you fly to Pittsburgh, make your way through the traffic and onto the highway that takes you through the beautiful wooded countryside.
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I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.'
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We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.
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There is those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves is a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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Yet now, as he roared across the night sky toward an unknown destiny, he found himself facing that bleak and ultimate question which so few men can answer to their satisfaction. What have I done with my life, he asked himself, that the world will be poorer if I leave it.
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Life-sustaining Zionism and the seeds of fascism cannot live together.
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In a way, I'm like Will Rogers, never having met a man I really disliked. I'm not a vamp. I just like men.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say I am unlucky, but, like any other family and any other girl, I've had my ups and downs.
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I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need.
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I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.
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When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.
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Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.
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I've always been a little crazy.
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.
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I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.
