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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You are the universe, you aren't in the universe.
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If you can write it, I can be it.
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There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're making everything harder for yourself.
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It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.
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I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
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You have to be able to tolerate what you don't necessarily like so you can be free.
