Benedetto Croce Quotes
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
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Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
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I have this sense of humour which is about as sophisticated as a seven-year-old schoolboy. I get very overexcited and silly.
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I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.
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When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.
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What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.
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We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.
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In the piano, one has the instrument complete before he begins; but in the case of the voice, the instrument has to be developed by study.
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I try not to write songs in which men glamorize their own need for approval from women. That's kinda a bogus way to go out. But I try to do this quietly. I'm not about to go around telling people how they should or shouldn't think. My feminism is for me.
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You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.
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I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.
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I don't particularly like attention. I like to do things on my own. I like to dress myself. People always ask that at shoots: 'Do you want any help?' That's the weirdest question.
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Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.
