G. H. Hardy Quotes
I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of a mathematician were far from noble. I thought of mathematics in terms of examinations and scholarships: I wanted to beat other boys, and this seemed to be the way in which I could do so most decisively.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.
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A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
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Seeing the road show of 'A Chorus Line' in 1977 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Memphis was a life-changing event for me: there were gay people, on the stage, and they all lived in New York.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
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I like to race, not to do laps alone.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.
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Having learned something, we tend to cling to that belief, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. New information comes in all time, and the thing we ought to be thinking about doing is changing our beliefs as that new information comes in.
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I think the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking.
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I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of a mathematician were far from noble. I thought of mathematics in terms of examinations and scholarships: I wanted to beat other boys, and this seemed to be the way in which I could do so most decisively.
