Arnold Wesker Quotes
Education ent only books and music – it's asking questions, all the time. There are millions of us, all over the country, and no one, not one of us, is asking questions, we're all taking the easiest way out.
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Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.
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Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!
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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
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I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
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If you look a little punkish, then they're going to give you the parts. And if you play an iconic villain early on in your career, you tend to get asked to play one over and over and over again.
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In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story.
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While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference.
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What's done to children, they will do to society.
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For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.
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Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.
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A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specialists to keep our jets flying.
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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
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I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
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I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'
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Always take earplugs and an eye mask. It doesn't matter where you are. Even if you're in the best hotel, if there's road works outside, then you're screwed. So I take earplugs and an eye mask with me wherever I go.
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There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.
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There are those who strive to stamp with disrepute The luscious food, because it feeds the brute; In tropes of high-strain'd wit, while gaudy prigs Compare thy nursling man to pamper'd pigs; With sovereign scorn I treat the vulgar jest, Nor fear to share thy bounties with the beast.
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Education ent only books and music – it's asking questions, all the time. There are millions of us, all over the country, and no one, not one of us, is asking questions, we're all taking the easiest way out.
