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.
Quotes to Explore
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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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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Race differences show up early in life.
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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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If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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I might not have been academically gifted - I was bad at maths, and science was a struggle - but I was good at English literature and became hooked on theatre.
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I believe that there are certain attributes in a woman that give her some advantages over a man. Women are usually more honest, more sensitive to issues and bring a stronger sense of commitment and dedication to what they do. Maybe because they were mothers, and being a mother you have that special attention for the family, for the young, for children…
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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Society can take two roads - the road to genuine prosperity, or the road to artificial stimulus. The first results in a permanent higher standard of living for all; the latter creates an inflationary boom that cannot last.
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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.
