Ezra Pound Quotes
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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My siblings and I, we were raised on TV and films. Not a day went by that we weren't watching one of three movies - 'Caddyshack,' 'Animal House,' 'Beverly Hills Cop' - on rotation. Our comedy, our personalities were set watching 'Sesame Street': these really sort of wacky, Jim Henson-y characters.
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In the Soviet Union I was the head of all oil production. And you know in the Soviet Union, you didn't get that job unless you were really worth it.
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I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them.
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I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.
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It's like, backstage at 'SNL,' like, if you come back after a show or something, or a lot of times even at the after-parties, we're just pretty tired and like, 'Hey, what's up.' Just getting a drink and kind of chilling out. Nothing crazy.
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I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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We should not be frightened by appearances.
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There's so much standing around and waiting with moviemaking!
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My parents have always had pretty high expectations, but they're very supportive.
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When you watch the films that I'm inspired by - from the '60s and '70s - it's not about the special effects: it's about the story; it's about characters and relationships.
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I used to be a person who just peaked for the big events, not doing too many competitions, but now you've got to go round chasing all the points because if you're not taking them, someone else is.
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I think everybody can be as fit as they can be for their particular body if they work out and eat healthily.
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I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.
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I have never really had a goal to be a true blue movie star, unlike a lot of my colleagues.
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There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
