O. Henry Quotes
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We have a problem. 'Congratulations.' But it's a tough problem. 'Then double congratulations.'
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When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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I carry a lot of muscle easily.
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I guess I was just meant to be a secretary who doesn't take shorthand. I'm a lousy typist, too - 33 words a minute.
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Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.
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It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
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The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
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We all have genes that come from our ancestors that aren't used - they're not turned on. So we actually carry ancient genes with us. If you could figure out how to turn those on, you could resurrect ancient characteristics from our ancestors.
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I carry the voices of all my family within me, and they were with me there in the jungle.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
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The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
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Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
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I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two! I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or two!
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I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you're either the winner of loser. There's no score in acting, but you qualify your level of success by the people that you work with and the amount of exposure that you have.
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I'm carrying an iPhone 5. I like this device. It's been impressive. I have a Windows and an Android device... I carry an iPad. I carry a Kindle... Yeah, I have a lot of devices.
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Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.
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Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
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I'm not a Democrat; I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
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You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders. You can't do that, and they should not be held there. They need rehabilitative therapy.
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Bolivar cannot carry double.
