Montgomery Clift Quotes
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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
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One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.
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That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
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I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.
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I've heard every pie joke in the book. I'm still waiting for an original one.
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We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man.
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My main goal is to stay healthy because when you're injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.
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I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.
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Everyone talks about, 'Get your foot in the door,' but I never understood that mentality. Why would I want to go in that house? Why not build my own house? Why not take a chair and smash a window?
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Health care has to be delivered as an integrated service across the entire continuum of care. This runs from healthy living and prevention to diagnosis and treatment and recovery and homecare.
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It would have been tough for anyone to adapt 'Push' - an amazing but wrenching novel by Sapphire - for the screen, and I think director Lee Daniels made interesting choices, particularly with Precious' fantasies. In my view, some of them work and some do not, but they are definitely provocative directorial choices.
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What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can reject or accept as we wish; it is rather a thing animated by the soul of the person who holds it.
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Morale is faith in the man at the top.
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There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.
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My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don't buy the first edition, because those have become incredibly expensive. But I might buy a beat-up copy of the second edition, third printing, which looks almost exactly the same as the first edition except that a couple of typos have been fixed.
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Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.
