Ilka Chase Quotes
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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The reality is that I always envisioned the 'Riddick' franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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I always separated sports and my personal life.
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I've always been a huge reggae fan.
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I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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My father was a very difficult man.
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The stories are success stories. The letters from listeners often touch the heart and can be inspiring.
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I love Lil Wayne; that's like my little brother. He's just the coolest dude on Earth.
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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
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I'm an only child, and we're a close family.
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You can always spot a well informed man - his views are the same as yours.
