D. H. Lawrence Quotes
In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.
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I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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I've always had the idea that multi-millionaire rock stars should work harder than anyone because they have the ability to do it. Look at an artist like Andy Warhol. He never stopped working, even after he didn't need to work again.
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It's not the increasing competition; it's going back to real work that most of us complain about.
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The terrorists' only rules? That there are no rules, and this gives them a major advantage.
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We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
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In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country.
