Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Talent is very hot.
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don't go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.
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I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
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Our only political stance is this: listen to these teachers.
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The big percentage is us, the real people, and we have to say something. You have to speak up. You have to.
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I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
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I love '80s horror.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
