Umar Quotes
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's too many words in it.
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I would love to direct - or try my hand at it, anyway.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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I fight fairly, and in good faith.
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Were the Rolling Stones good looking? Well, Jagger was, but the rest of the dudes? Maybe not so much.
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I've always been worried about people who are willing to work for nothing. Sometimes that's all you get from them, nothing.
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My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.
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The criterion of action is that todays work should not be deferred till the following day.
