George Hackenschmidt Quotes
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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Love is more than one thing.
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They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.
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It should be a law for one whole year that all laugh tracks are Seth Rogen. The world would get ever so slightly better.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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I cannot tolerate fools - won't have anything to do with them. I only want to associate with brilliant people.
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People want to see realism in action now.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea that they're the voice of God. I think it's just honest to say, yes, you know where I'm coming from but you can fact-check anything I say.
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I am not trying to make an image; I am an actor trying to sell movies.
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You must want to - in other words, you must act.
