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 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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It's like running a marathon race. We train all hours of the day. When you are taking a bath, you are thinking of the flight.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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I see people who work on their look and they work on their poster and their website and you know, the music will speak for itself no matter what. So if you put maybe like 95% of your energy on music and 5% on playing out and telling people about it. That's kind of a good equation.
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Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
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In America we need members of the Latino community to come to the Tea Party movement and enrich the Tea Party.
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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
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Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
