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"Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right."
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"Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help."
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"Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay."
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"More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic."
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"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."
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"There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right word, literally, is 'sympathy' - sym-pathos, common passion. This means that friendships are discovered more than they are created at will."
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"There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe."
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"The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy."
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"A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy."
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"Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for."
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"My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else."
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"Fay has spirituality too, but she also has that very real sex appeal that takes hold of the hearts of men."
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"In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture."
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"Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof."
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"For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead."
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"I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food."
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"As soon as I had seen Fay Wray and spoken with her for a few minutes, I knew I had found the right girl."
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"I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality."
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"If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead."
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"I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing."
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"Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality."
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