Arthur Helps Quotes
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
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Texas deserves a leader who understands that making education a priority creates good jobs for Texans and keeps Texas on top.
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How do you take what you do as seriously as possible but not so seriously that it ends up inhibiting what you do?
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There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified, and new prejudices to be opposed.
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For those of you who tried, but didn't make it, Settle down - it's never what you think. The summit doesn't differ from the deep, dark valley, And the valley doesn't differ from the kitchen sink.
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We cannot let the bogeyman of al-Qaida and extremism be used to stall historic change in our country
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Money doesn't buy class.
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We know in our hearts that technology at its best should make us feel even more human than we currently feel. Sometimes it makes us feel less human.
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I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.
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I loved playing Anne Bancroft, because she was so wonderfully arch.
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I usually look at things like that from an audience perspective first, then have a closer look at the specific character they're talking about me for.
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I'm more than willing to go to places and talk to people who believe that I am an illegal alien who deserves to be jailed. I want to look them in the eye and say, 'What makes you think I'm any different from you?' I think for our generation, immigration rights is a civil rights issue.
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If I were to look in you ferigerator....refridgefreetorator...fridge....what would I find?
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
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One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed.
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Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
