Edward G. Robinson Quotes
I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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Antonio Berardi is one of my good friends.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.
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A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.
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...in general, the traditionalists are backward-looking, conservative; pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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I feel like now if you're going to start a band you have to have an Instagram full of yourself looking a certain way, lined up like five dudes in mugshot alley, hanging out by the bridge or up against the wall, or "We're in a library for some reason!"
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The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.
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Faith is trust in what the spirit learned eons ago.
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I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.
