Constance Rourke Quotes
There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed. ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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The optimal use of natural resources can be made only if there is a well-thought-out policy framework for their exploitation towards a particular end use.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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The only model to follow is pure Islam.
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I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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I want to make films that cater to the world audiences.
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I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.
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When I was 11 I became a massive fan of The Monkees. We had a so-called 'band' of kids on my street and we'd go along to people's houses and mime to Monkees records.
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No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.
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It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.
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We are Republicans. But we are Americans first. It is as Americans that we express our concern with the growing confusion that threatens the security and stability of our country.
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When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own personal space when they're reading it.
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It looks like I'm this huge shark going in for the kill... I don't know what I was thinking.
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My films have a lot of historical context; I'm a huge fan of ruins. You see a lot of ruin work in my movies, I like ruins.
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In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.
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A relationship is an imaginative act, it's an act of creation. Someone said to me the other day that a relationship between a person and a kid is unconditional; but the relationship between adults, to each other, is conditional, in a sense. But that condition can be the best kind.
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The way television works is that directors come in and out, and they're not there all the time, following every character through every scene. They're vagabonds who go from one show to another.
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I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.
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There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed. ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises.
