Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
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I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.
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One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now, which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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When I was 41, I had a very bad back pain, and it turned out to be Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
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Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
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If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.
