Lionel Barrymore Quotes
Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.
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I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.
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My spirit is as strong as ever. I'm still fighting to make the world a safer place, and you can, too.
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There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.
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I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.
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I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
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As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.
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Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.
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To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.
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When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.
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It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.
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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
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Why does America always need to be the world's policeman?
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I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'
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I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.
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I believe the world to be a muffin pan, and there certainly are a lot of muffins here.
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I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
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I still pinch meself when I wake up of a morning. Who ever thought I'd be a children's author - let alone a best-selling children's author?
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When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.
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It's never as good the second time. Things don't get better. You can't always go back, a lot of it has been erased. The photograph is a record of it having existed.
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Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.
