Ben Gazzara Quotes
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
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A lot of the time, you see something really beautiful, but if you don't have the perfect figure and are a really small size, it won't work well for you.
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Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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Theocratic and military authorities share one thing: they have no sense of humour.
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How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?
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A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.
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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
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It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.
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A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
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Usually my writing is very over the top and bombastic and very, like, 'I'm amazing! Look at me!'
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To be honest, I haven't had a lot of time off.
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I suppose this was really the moment for embarking upon an impassioned defence of Boko, stressing his admirable qualities. Not being able to think of any, however, I remained silent.
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I know you're all saying I can go to the moon but I can't find Pasadena.
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Il est à peu près impossible de constituer systématiquement une morale naturelle. La nature n'a pas de principes. Elle ne nous fournit aucune raison de croire que la vie humaine est respectable. La nature, indifférente, ne fait nulle distinction du bien et du mal.
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I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do.
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We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses. We are those who, through prevarication, skill or luck, never touched bottom. Those who have, and who have seen the face of the Gorgon, did not return, or returned wordless.
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I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.
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I am not a trained actor and am not near the top of anyone's want list. I go after what I am offered, if I am so inclined. Now and then, I get offers for things that are not to my liking, in that I just don't care about the story. All this super tough guy stuff isn't anything that interests me all that much. I can't think of anything I turned down that I regret.
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I don't know if women gravitate toward me, or I gravitate toward them.
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What happens is that with difficult processes on a film, they get very intensely compressed because a clock is ticking.
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I love awards, especially if I get them.
