Lillian Gish Quotes
You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father, and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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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 Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
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It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.
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If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe it's inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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I love a challenge. So when I did 'Friday,' I didn't want to do another comedy back-to-back. With 'Set It Off,' that was a little different from 'The Negotiator' and 'The Italian Job.' So for me, it's all about challenge. It's all about challenge and about just learning.
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When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
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But there is still a considerable difference between a failure to do enough that is right and a determination to do much that is wrong.
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My philosophy was if they weren't calling you names, you weren't doing anything.
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If I really don't feel like it, I'll change my plans and choose to be with my baby. If that moment makes me happier, I think that's more important.
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Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.
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You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father, and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.
