Nicholas Ray (Raymond Nicholas Kienzle Jr) Quotes
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I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.
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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
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If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.
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I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States.
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Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence.
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You have major labels that are willing to take unconventional approaches because the old model is crumbling in front of us.
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
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Our blight is ideologies - they are the long-expected Antichrist!
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Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.
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A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.) (4.464)
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My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.
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The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.
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What meal is not expensive? That for which no animal is put to death. … one participating of feeling, of seeing, of hearing, of imagination, and of intellection; which each animal hath received from Nature for the acquiring of what is agreeable to it, and the avoiding what is disagreeable.
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Film recognizes neither time nor space, only the limits of man's imagination
