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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Success and failure are equally disastrous.
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?
For time is the longest distance between two places.
Time is the longest distance between two places.
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
All good art is an indiscretion.
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The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.
If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life.
I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
There is nothing like the way people feel after they've seen 'The Intouchables.' They feel amazing. The word of mouth on this film is incredible. It's intelligent-feeling good. You're not insulted by the low-browness or stupidity of some of the humor. It's so smart and terrific.
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