Rudolf Arnheim Quotes
It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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Having your second child, in case you were wondering, is a lot harder than having your first, except for those people who find it easier. I'm afraid I don't have the latest figures to confirm this.
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After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.
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It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.
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I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
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Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
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I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
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I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.
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If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.
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Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.
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How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?
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The Outsider's miseries are the prophet's teething pains. He retreats into his room, like a spider in a dark corner; he lives alone, wishes to avoid people.
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In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible.
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Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.
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You've gotta understand camera angles, camera movement - a kick that may not be very powerful may look very powerful from a certain angle.
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When conducted with proper preparation, and in a focused and professional manner, oversight of executive branch actions can reveal serious shortcomings by government officials and help prevent recurrence; the 'Waco hearings,' conducted over a two-week period in 1995, stand as an example of such an undertaking.
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I say this all the time, but when I go to bed at the end of the day, and I put my head down on the pillow, I really feel such a sense of satisfaction, and I'm so proud of my kids that they have this amazing work ethic, and we get to work with each other every day, so it doesn't get any better than that.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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All modesty aside, I think I'm good at reading scripts. The way I read a script is as fast as I can, all in one sitting, and I don't read many of the stage directions. I only read enough stage directions to let me know where I am, because they're always so verbose and mostly horseshit. So I only read the dialogue, which allows me to see the movie in my mind's eye in real time.
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It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival.
