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“The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.”

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The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

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I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director.

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Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.

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What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

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You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.

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I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.

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If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition

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I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

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You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

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There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money,…

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The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.

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I'm very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective.

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A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…

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There are those that say, if you do the uncomfortable thing long enough, it will become comfortable. But we are really not encouragers of that. We are encouragers of coming into alignment, and then taking the action. We are encouragers always of getting rid of the fear; we would never want you to keep doing things that you feel fearful…

Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger. To resist takes tremendous conscious effort, you don’t dare let your guard down for an instant. The void puts you on edge, makes your movements tentative and clumsy. But as the climb continues, you grow…

Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability.

Edward Greenspon

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To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in…

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in…

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We have become accustomed to living our life with joy amidst pain and challenges.

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Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed…

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If you're a Firefox user, you get accustomed to your history and the URL bar and finding things. That should be available on your…

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It is amazing how soon one becomes accustomed to the sound of ones voice, when forced to repeat a speech five or six times a day. As election day approaches, the size of the crowds grows; they are more responsive and more interested; and one derives a certain exhilaration from that which, only a few weeks before, was intensely painful.…

J. William Fulbright

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies…

Marcus Aurelius

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