Lorelei Linklater Quotes
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I think all politicians lie.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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Naturalization is the process by which a citizen, or subject of a foreign nation or kingdom, is made a citizen of the United States. It is evident that the Constitutional Convention thought that it was important that this process should be placed under the exclusive control of the Federal Government and not of the States.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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I saw 'Hamilton' when it was at the Public, and I just wept profusely in my seat because this is a form I love deeply, and to watch it be reinvented in such a genius, gifted way and executed by such a brilliant company of human beings, I was overwhelmed with not just appreciation for the piece of work itself but for the possibility.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.
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I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.
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Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given.
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There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.
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I would have voted 'no' on the Iraq war and 'yes' to Afghanistan.
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If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just a job. It's not just a hobby. It's why I get up in the morning.
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Jack Benny: Where's that big glass star I told you to pack away last Christmas?
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Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.
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You can't even imagine the feeling you get when someone tells you that you are about to lose your legs.
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I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering.
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I first wrote down all the phenomena that have emerged in contemporary society that I thought were related to this theme ["sea of oblivion"], and then sorted them out by grouping them into islands of ideas.
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A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.
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I love Harry Potter. I've read all the books several times.
