Louis Begley Quotes
I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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I have to trust what I do and then do it.
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A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
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I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
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L.A. fashion is like lip injections. That confuses me. That's become not just a thing. It's become fashion, part of your outfit. But hey, to each his own.
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What's the trick to writing a good bad guy? Well, for me, it's always been the idea that you pit yourself against authority, you know? I think that's what it takes - and then you can write villainous characters.
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I never intended to become a commercial filmmaker in the first place. What I do requires time and experimentation. Commercial work is often not the best way to get the most innovative work, because it's about money and marketing. Although advertising is now embracing non-commercial people.
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I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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I may well do some more polemical writing, if a subject that fires me up comes along. Apart from that possibility, I would like to continue to tell stories so long as I have stories to tell.
