Eva Le Gallienne Quotes
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.
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I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.
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The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.
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You have to enjoy yourself when you go to the movies. People don't want to spend their hard earned money to simply go see a history lesson.
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What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you have to create that arc in little pieces, and usually out of sequence.
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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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I was asked to go to Cannes to present Amores Perros. And little did I know that this film would be huge. I saw it for the first time in Cannes, and it was the first time I'd seen myself on such a big screen. And it had a huge impact on me - it was the strangest feeling.
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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
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Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
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With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.
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To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.
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The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.
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Tell me what's wrong with this idea: If you're selling to somebody, find someone like that person to sell to them. If you're trying to reach swing voters, if you're trying to reach people on the fence, if you're trying to reach Republicans who are unsure about this candidate... get people who switched! Get people who are registered Republicans. Get people who were George Bush voters who can't bring themselves to do it again. Talk to them, get them to explain what their reasons are, and show them to people. What's wrong with this idea?!
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Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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For me, governing starts with people. It doesn't start with bureaucracy. It doesn't start with policy. It starts with people and what people need to thrive.
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People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it.
