Luigi Pirandello Quotes
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
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I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.
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Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.
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History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
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I like being by myself.
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The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.
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My parents were hippies.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
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Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.
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I'm a little bit of a hippie at heart, so I always wear things that are comfortable and flowing.
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I do lots of activities. I hang out with friends.
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There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
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I'm not in the teenybopper bracket, and I'm not in the 30-plus bracket. The fan response has been really widespread, age-wise.
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A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
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