Warren Beatty Quotes
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.
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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
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My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.
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I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.
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People love to be told what they know already.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
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In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.
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You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
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I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right?
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When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent.
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In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this will contribute to novel modes of cancer prevention, diagnosis and, hopefully, later on, also to cancer therapy.
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May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore.
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Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
