Aristotle Quotes
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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I am getting to that age where I am too old to play the boy next door and too young to play Uncle Fester.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.
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Life is a school of probability.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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I'm like a mechanic. If you break down and phone the AA, they'll come to you whether it's raining or snowing. That's what an actor should do.
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I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
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Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit.
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The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.
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How do you open up? I didn't know how to.
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I'm not a walking fleet of vanity vans any more than I'm a walking, talking multi-star cast. I might want an entourage, but so far, it is entirely eluding me.
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I did not like leaving them when they were little or big. You have to have priorities regarding what you will allow to take you away from your kid.
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The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
