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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We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.
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Marge, old people don't need companionship, they need to be isolated and studied to see what useful nutrients can be obtained from them...
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If I had known there was such a thing as Islamic Calligraphy, I would never have started to paint. I have strived to reach the highest levels of artistic mastery, but I found that Islamic Calligraphy was there ages before I was.
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Sometimes the idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.
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In the eye of the law no doubt, man and wife are for many purposes one: but that is a strong figurative expression, and cannot be so dealt with as that all the consequences must follow which would result from its being literally true.
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I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.
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There is always room for change, but you have to be open to that change.
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Why do the good die? That only happened once.
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You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.
