Edward Dmytryk Quotes
With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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I just tend to do things to myself that I don't realize I'm doing. Sometimes I bite my lip so that it splits and hurts, and yet I can't stop. And sometimes I'd play shows on the last run, I'd scratch my neck while I was singing, and I'd horrified to see these red streaks of blood after.
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Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
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I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them when I was that age.' I had no style whatsoever, but style also wasn't as prominent as it is today. I was just very laid back, usually wearing jeans and tank tops and flip flops.
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The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
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I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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Leo, sadly, has Parkinson's, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.
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I'll have to say winning the Olympic gold in Atlanta is a crowning achievement, along with the gold in the relay in the same games.
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A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.
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Without effective states working with active and involved citizens, there is little chance for the growth that is needed to abolish global poverty.
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It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.
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With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.
