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Erich von Stroheim

"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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"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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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."

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"But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy."

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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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"I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one."

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"I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with."

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"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them."

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"It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world."

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"There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous."

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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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"I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me."

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"It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance."

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"I could not work with a girl who did not have a spiritual quality."

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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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"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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"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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"For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead."

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