Woody Allen (Allan Stewart Konigsberg) Quotes
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's cool when women are able to kick butt.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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Acting is in your soul.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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The notion of self-care for people who have hundreds of millions of dollars, it doesn't seem like a radical thing.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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To change what you get, you must change who you are.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
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My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
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The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
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I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.
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Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.
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Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer.
