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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Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.
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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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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where 'As You Like It' is set. It was idyllic.
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My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused - I think I was taking advice all too often, without listening to my inner voice. Add to the fact that I was a little overweight; so every wrong 'outfit' got compounded all that much.
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I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.
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I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show what lighting can do to either one.
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You have to be able to tolerate what you don't necessarily like so you can be free.
