William Ellery Channing Quotes
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.
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At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
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In my new book, 'Binge,' I share essays about everything I've never told my viewers - touching on the best and worst days of my life, some hilarious, some embarrassing, but all extremely personal.
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I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.
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I have no regrets. I have not one single regret. I was born with a wonderful DNA where I felt that my life was not a race against someone else or another artist. It was probably internal.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
