Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.
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Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.
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When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza.
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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.
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When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
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If you are explaining, you are losing.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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You have good days and bad days.
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MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
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Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I'm just very interested in what's possible.
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People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'
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