Sigmund Freud Quotes
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
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Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love Lucy.' I loved hearing the audience laughing. It was really exciting to me.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
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Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
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When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
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Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
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The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
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If I get angry, it's obvious. I don't have to say much.
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I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.
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One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.
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Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
