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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I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director.
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My mother turned 40 in 1973. So in 1970 - when 'The Female Eunuch' came out and Ms. magazine was founded - my mom was 37 with two children, and she was just that little bit too old, and the circumstances of her life were set up in a certain way that for her to fulfill her ambitions and dreams, she would have had to break with the family.
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My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.
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My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large sheet of two-dimensional tissue that has been wadded up to fit inside the spherical skull,' is riddled instead of whole.
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It was as if the whole western mind-training of individual differences had been made background instead of figure, so that you'd look at another human being and say, 'Here we are.' You'd see differences more as clothing, rather than as core stuff.
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Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.
