Ring Lardner Quotes
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
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It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
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Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
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I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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David Lynch helped me be cool.
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Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.
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I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.
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Ferran Adria making hamburgers... some thought it was crazy. But getting them perfect was a challenge. Plus I'm fascinated by all aspects of food.
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It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored.
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I believe in that gladiatorial mind-set. I love it.
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I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity.
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I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I've always given everything to it. That's kind of how I approach life. I can't help it. There's no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life.
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An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
