Leo Strauss 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 enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex – not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.
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You don't come into this life wanting to be anything other than happy.
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If you're a fan of auteur filmmaking, I'd say get yourself invested in some really good TV shows.
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I've often thought - even though it's hard to give him even more credit than he has had - that Andy Warhol must have started a lot of 15 minutes of fame.
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You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.
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Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.
