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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Film would have been great, but I don't think I was ever in the frame.
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I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I'm alive and I'm living and I'm experiencing different things every day, the show will always change.
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I usually just pick a genre of movie that I feel like saluting and then go off and come up with something that I can sort of pay homage to. That's the great thing about our show is we've sort of created a landscape for 'Psych' where we're kind of allowed to go off and give shout-outs to movies that we love, genres that we love.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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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.
