T. S. Eliot Quotes
O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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My work... is my legacy.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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I liked animals better than people. That's one of the reasons I wanted to be a vet - then I found out that every pet had a person that owned 'em.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
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I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.
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I'm the third of five children.
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I don't want fans mad at me, so I gotta give them what they expect and what they want.
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I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.
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I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.
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I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with Billy Joel.
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I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat wearer.
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I'm not a good liar. I just tell the truth; I think that's the best way.
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I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.
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I believe in a society where all people do well. Not just a handful of billionaires.
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Denouncing Nazis is the easiest thing in the world: All it requires is a modicum of historical perspective and a working moral compass.
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I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. That book had a number of sort of rites of passage for me.
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I knew doing a rap-country song like 'Whiskey Do My Talkin'' was a good move, ... It totally opened the urban side of honky tonk up to us, not to mention there being plenty of good old fashioned amped up country on this one.
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O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
