Edward G. Robinson Quotes
To my mind, the actor has this great responsibility of playing another human being… it’s like taking on another person’s life and you have to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
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My brain doesn't like to be quiet.
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I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.
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I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.
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It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.
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Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.
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To my mind, the actor has this great responsibility of playing another human being… it’s like taking on another person’s life and you have to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.
