Edward Albee Quotes
What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.
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I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.
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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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You need to let your hair produce its own oils and be healthy.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
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I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.
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Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
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If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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Dreams rise like the sun and set like the sun: One minute, it is high and bright; the next minute, you might lose it.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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I'm just gonna be real grateful to be on any freaking movie set for the rest of my life.
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What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.
