Lillian Hellman Quotes
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
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Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.
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No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.
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Management is getting people together to figure out how to transform inputs into outputs. In the process of figuring out the process of how people work together, you've got to figure out who's got what responsibilities, and how do they work together.
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You know, I think a lot of times what happens when we as actors know we're playing a bad guy is we get into bad guy mode. You know what, man? In real life, bad people do good things too and good people do bad things. So you don't necessarily have to be the stereotypical bad guy to still do bad things.
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Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
