Samuel Johnson Quotes
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If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.
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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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I like a mannish man: a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles.
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I understand how the economy actually works.
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I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recognize in the way that they felt about their country. It's to do with the world we live in. That world is a brutal one and full of war. It's also full of many wonderful things and love and hope.
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'The Real World' is the most predictable arc ever. They get on the show, they're all excited, we're gonna be best friends, then people start drinking and get hammered, and say stupid stuff, and that's pretty much it.
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.
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I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.
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The one thing that's broken inside of me is that I've lost the signal most people have to feel hungry or feel full.
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Nothing is more important than when you see someone for the first time, and you get that feeling where you can't move or speak or do anything until you know that person and take a sense of who they are with you.
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A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.
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Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.
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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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You know that they're not just into it for the moment, they really care about it and value it over time.
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At the risk of sounding like that old guy in 'Gran Torino' telling those 'young punks' to 'get off my lawn,' it's gotten to the point that whenever I hear somebody talking about Twitter or twittering or tweeting, it just makes my little tummy want to hurl.
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Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.' I thought, 'What if I just stopped and listened?'
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If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.
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It is difficult to meet fan expectations, especially when people say, 'Oh, the last one was the best one.' It creates more pressure each time for the next game to top the last one.
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I refute it thus.
