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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Music is the best consolation for a despaired man.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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I find it hard to believe that anyone could be so curious about me that they would want to read that I wear underwear shorts with green polka dots on them.
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I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.
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Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.
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You must want to - in other words, you must act.
