E. L. Doctorow Quotes
Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.
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Yes, because when you're in love, you are shy.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.
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I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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Well first of all you have to make the character strong so that people can follow that. And then hopefully that character can integrate with the background of the social situation that people can recognize.
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I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.
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I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.
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Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.
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It takes two to speak the truth, - one to speak, and another to hear.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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I don't need gold in heaven, I gotta have it now.
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Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.
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Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.
