O. Henry Quotes
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Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation.
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Silence is also conversation.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
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Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.
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I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.
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My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.
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I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
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A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy.
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The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.
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I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.
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I've been in a few love triangles. I've been in a love quadrilateral.
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On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.
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In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
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An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine. I've been using Final Cut or the AVID for 12 years now, so I was interested in looking at this film and seeing if I could tell if it had been edited the old way.
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The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.
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I want to steer the national conversation in the right direction, from my point of view. I want to get under Robert Gibbs' skin and Rahm Emanuel's skin and Barack Obama's skin.
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One must not count in thousands, like the propagandist belonging to a small group that has not yet given leadership to the masses; in these circumstances one must count in millions and tens of millions.
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Always remember that there is a law of compensation which operates just as infallibly as gravitation, and that victory goes at last where it ought to, and that this is just as true of individuals as of nations.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
