D. H. Lawrence Quotes
All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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Everything is real on me.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
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Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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I tried snowboarding, and that scared the hell out of me.
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You can do more, you can always do more.
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Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have.
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You can take organic materials ? leather, steel, wood and fabrics ? and mix them in the right way.
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I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.
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Don't let something hurtful in your past hold you back from what you want to do. Be brave.
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A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.
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All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.
