Lionel Barrymore Quotes
Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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There is no age limit on the enjoyment of sex. It keeps getting better.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
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I'm a pro-horserace guy.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps glowing the holy fire of patriotism.
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I believe if we could enable people to live forever, we should do that. I think this is absolute.
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At the same time we receive different signals all around that in fact, everything is fine. The same situation occurred with the previous administrations during the election campaigns, claims that everything will be restored later. I do not think it matches the level of responsibility shouldered by the United States. I suppose it should be more sound, calm and balanced.
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In 1945, at the beginning of the Cold War, our leaders led us astray. We need to think of the Cold War as an aberration, a wrong turn. As such, we need to go back to where we were in 1945 - before we took the road to a permanent war economy, a national security state and a foreign policy based on unilateralism and cowboy triumphalism.
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Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.
