George Washington Quotes
It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour.
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I can't tell you the joy I felt in flying in that show … I loved it so. The freedom of spirit that was Peter Pan was suddenly there for me. I discovered I was happier in the air than on the ground.
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Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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My grill is intended to be discreet. It's there because I enjoy jewelry.
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It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
