Cleveland Amory Quotes
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.
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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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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.
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Law graduates have always ended up in business, government, journalism and other fields. Law schools could do more to build these subjects into their coursework.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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I just sing. You have to use it.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.
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Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.
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Are you a fun-loving Tigger or a sad-sack Eeyore? Pick a camp. I think it's clear where I stand on the great Tigger/Eeyore debate!
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The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.
