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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and…
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we…
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
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The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what…
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us,…
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war;…
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to…
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a…
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like…
— Zadie Smith
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I was born in Queens and spent many years there. After I got married, I moved to Kew Gardens, then moved to…
— Bob Sheppard
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I've got to say that I don't see myself as some sort of political type like Alec Baldwin or Barbra Streisand. I…
— Drew Carey
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Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
— Winston Churchill
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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw…
— Maya Angelou
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When I do scenes with Alec Baldwin, he just stares at my boobs. That's how good of an actor he is, he…
— Jane Krakowski
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Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.
— Winston Churchill
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I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.
— Anthony LaPaglia
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