Saul Bellow Quotes
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
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I would like to direct.
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I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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If the people in Britain knew the nature and disposition of the New England people as well as we do they would not find so many friends in England as I suppose they do.
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I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.
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The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
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History develops, art stands still.
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Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.
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The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.
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For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work.
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Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.
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There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
