Anita Loos Quotes
In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.
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In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
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I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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I just had fun making the movies - just being on set - but I didn't really care about the acting part.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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I wouldn't just lay my voice on anything. But I'd love to do a collaboration, like a Calvin Harris track, for example.
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I grew up in New York.
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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
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My job is to make sure we keep performing.
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I don't think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.
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I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.
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In any service where a couple hold down jobs as a team, the male generally takes his ease while the wife labors at his job as wellas her own.
