Louis Begley Quotes
If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.
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I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.
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The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
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If you want to change things, it requires bravery.
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I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.
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For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.
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Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
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To me, my business is my life.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
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The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.
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When I was in my freshman year at college I took some acting classes and found that I fell in love with it again.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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I have been in movies that I thought I wasn't very good in.
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If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.
