Washington Allston Quotes
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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Lovers should also have their days off.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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I don't own cable, but my TV came with a Netflix button.
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No man was ever great by imitation.
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Songs are more powerful than books.
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The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
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Precedents are dangerous things; let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the Constitution be reprehended: If defective let it be amended, but not suffered to be trampled upon whilst it has an existence.
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The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.
