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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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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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 play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.
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The function of art is to struggle against obligation.
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The matriarchal society is thus the decadent and broken. The strongly matriarchal character of Negro life is due to the moral failure of Negro men, their failure to be responsible, to support the family, or to provide authority. The same is true of American Indian tribes which are also matriarchal today.
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I'm practicing the oboe. But I don't play. Just single notes, not an entire piece of music.
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I'm sure someone out there has a workable solution. But what do I know? I make comic books and write about jazz. I do know the difference between right and wrong, though.
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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.
