Alexander Lowen Quotes
I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?
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I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.
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American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil.
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer "poetry" would embarrass us both, for we both know that nobody can earn a living simply by writing poetry.
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I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.
