Willem de Kooning Quotes
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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What you are comes to you.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.
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Education is the way to move mountains, to build bridges, to change the world. Education is the path to the future. I believe that education is indeed freedom.
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I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
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Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.
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I have to change to stay the same.
