Aldous Huxley Quotes
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.
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I can do whatever I want.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outsiders, to change through the force of his art that old whispering 'I want to be white,' hidden in the aspirations of his people, to 'Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!'
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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I already am a product.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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I still find it interesting that there could be a point between a young guy and a girl when they decide to hold hands as they walk down the block. At some point, they decide to make the leap from pushing and insulting each other to doing something tender and possessive and showing the world that.
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If a FIFA World Cup tournament had been held every year between 1982 and 1986, France would have won two or three.
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When you love something, you get to know it. Then you feel the ownership and if it changes, you only love it as far as you know it because then you're like, "What is this?"
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A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.
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Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
