Walter Winchell Quotes
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
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I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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That's something USA Hockey has been trying to do for a long time is prove that we can play with the Canadians and the Russians and the Swedes and Finns consistently on a tournament basis.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.
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I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
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A character on stage who can present no convincing argument or information as to his past experience, his present behaviour or his aspirations, nor give a comprehensive analysis of his motives, is as legitimate and as worthy of attention as one who, alarmingly, can do all these things.
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I don't have time to be negative.
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I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.
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But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.
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Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
