Ilya Ehrenburg Quotes
Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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The culture of self-gratification and deregulation that began during the Clinton years and continued under President George W. Bush led to the bursting of one stock market bubble at the turn of the century and a full-scale financial crash less than a decade later.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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I'm a singer who touches millions of people and my words and my knowledge of what I'm learning from cancer can help millions. And if I can help millions, even if I help one person, that's one person more than none.
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Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean.
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You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
