Art Buchwald Quotes
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The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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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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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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Everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me. We completed each other.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.
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But there's a huge blessing that comes from being a part of a show like 'The Cosby Show' that sets such a high standard of quality - it touched so many people on so many different levels.
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And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
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I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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Fundamental to everything the ancient Greeks achieved was their conviction that good for humanity was possible only if men were free, body, mind, and spirit, and if each man limited his own freedom. A good state or work of art or piece of thinking was possible only through the self-mastery of the free individual, self-government.
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The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never free his mind of this game.
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The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of the individual.
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Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.
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Your future shines bright - find your purpose and go for it. Starting tomorrow, you can change the world.
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Don't commit suicide, because you might change your mind two weeks later.
