Homer Quotes
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.
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Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and political liberty, but at the same time, we are warned by the admonitions of history and the voice of our own beloved Washington to abstain from entangling alliances with foreign nations.
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When I look at a film, I don't think, 'Oh, I wish I had done that' because I haven't done that role, so it doesn't matter.
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I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work.
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'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.
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I love him (Josh Homme) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much ... unless you're family.
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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
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Truth was the only daughter of Time.
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Theatre is a bastard form. I'm always proud of that. That's what makes it taste of life.
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Words can't express how humbled I am in being given the privilege to portray Gunnery Sergeant Basilone!
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No, Michael was all good. Killed, dismembered, buried, reborn…yeah, just another day in the life.
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The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.
