Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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I play sad bastard music. For the money.
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You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.
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I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972.
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The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.
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I'm a huge poster collector.
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Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.
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Three technical aspects of thermonuclear weapons have made thermonuclear war a peril to the very existence of humanity. These aspects are: the enormous destructive power of a thermonuclear explosion, the relative cheapness of rocket-thermonuclear weapons, and the practical impossibility of an effective defense against a massive rocket-nuclear attack.
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Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.
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If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible.
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Best way to rob a bank is to own one.
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Believe the best of everybody.
