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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Here's the thing: The book that will most change your life is the book you write.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might.
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As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
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Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
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Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer.
