Montgomery Clift Quotes
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I write in a small office at home.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
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I've always had great faith in people.
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A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation.
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I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
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Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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If a man don't go his own way, he is nothing.
