Livy Quotes
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
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Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
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I had written my master's thesis on Ezra Pound on 'The Cantos.' And don't ask me about it. I don't remember anything about it.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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Success is not about how much money we have in the bank, but it's about how many peoples' lives we have impacted through it. Success is experienced when we do things which are never done before.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.
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People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art.
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Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.
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Snowden has been very sparing about discussing his early life or his personal life.
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All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.
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I'm surrounded by great friends and family. I don't know what I would do without them.
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All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.
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The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.
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When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my first ever show was 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' Everyone's familiar with it. I played priest number 3 and sang so out of tune that it's not even funny.
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Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
