Clifford Irving Quotes
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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I wanted to make it a really strong point to not watch 'Battlestar Galactica' before starting 'Caprica' because I was afraid it was going to give me a lot of pressure and preconceived notions of what it was going to be like.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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I'll say anything to live.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I used to dress like Stephen Perkins from Jane's Addiction because I thought he was cool. You just want to be those guys when you're that age.
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For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
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I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
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A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.
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Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
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Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
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I'll always be working on five things at once, usually with those documents open at the same time because if I get stuck somewhere I'll jump over to something else. That's how my head has always worked.
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I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.
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I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off.
