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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Here, in low earth orbit, we're going around the earth, so we can actually use an Internet protocol phone because we have the appropriate satellites that can get those bandwidths.
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The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there are very few constants in the show, so the 'Doctor'- when you're there, you're in it a lot. You're speaking a lot.
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In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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Sometimes I write from the point of view of characters whom I would dislike as people, not as a perverse exercise, but because this cracks the story open and makes me see it in a way I would not see it naturally.
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People hate what they don't understand and try to destroy it.
