Bobby Darin Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
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We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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'The State Within' demands a certain intelligence from its audience. It doesn't just wash over you - it asks for commitment. And that's a really good thing.
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The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
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I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.
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I think it's impossible not to see something you wanted happen to someone else and maybe wish it for yourself.
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It is so hard to get movies made in Hollywood that you got to have six going at once, and you know, probably none of those get made.
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My whole life has been a lie.
