Mariel Hemingway Quotes
I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
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Gooseberries aren't just for creamy desserts and pies.
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Then there is this idea that the world owes you a living. Here is a little thought about that. It isn't particularly logical but it makes my point. You were paid when you were born, with the privilege of living. Death is all that is coming to you. Life came to you when you were born.
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The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.
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It's hard to connect to these superheroes that are completely out of this world. But Spider-Man is first and foremost Peter Parker, who we can all relate to.
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Both of them mean that Labor has no rights which Capital is bound to respect,-that there is no higher law than human interest and cupidity.
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I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.
