Larry Flynt Quotes
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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The supporting powers of time air and of the wind depend on the shape of the surfaces used, and the best forms can only be evolved by free flight through the air.
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In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
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I think a generation ago, dads went to work, they came home, and they had their dinner, had a drink, and then went to bed. I don't know what it was like in your house, but that is how it was in mine. I think it is cool to have the dads in the trenches and doing the real parenting work.
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If I were to look back on my work, I think I accomplished probably about 70 to 75 percent of what I could have. Maybe 60 percent. Somewhere in that area; two-thirds of what I could have accomplished. If I had been a really dedicated person, and really worked hard, I think I could have accomplished more.
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More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.
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You have to be able to tolerate what you don't necessarily like so you can be free.
