Morley Safer Quotes
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
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The female attention I have to struggle hardest with is from my two-year-old daughter.
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Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.
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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
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After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not just praying for themselves; they're praying for their family and the people they've let down.
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Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
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There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.
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I find that other countries have this or this, but Italy is the only one that has it all for me. The culture, the cuisine, the people, the landscape, the history. Just everything to me comes together there.
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I always wish I could go back and see the people that I love as children.
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I think Douglas was a real one-off. He was so clever and so intelligent and so well read in real science that he could make science fiction work as well as it did. And just such fun to have around, he was just such a lovely man.
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I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which I think has been hard for me.
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I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality.
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Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates.
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Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!
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I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman.
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...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.
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You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.
