O. Henry Quotes
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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I would like to direct.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.
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When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
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I believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
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Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?
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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
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The start of a film is like a gateway, a formal entrance-point. The first three minutes of a film make great demands on an audience's patience and credulity. A great deal has to be learnt very rapidly about place and attitude, character and intent and ambition.
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When all the world dissolves,And every creature shall be purified,All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.
