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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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"In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture."
Hollywood

"Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality."
Woman

"The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love."
Love

"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."
Life

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

"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."
Sympathy

"I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing."
Woman

"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."
Man

"Fay has spirituality too, but she also has that very real sex appeal that takes hold of the hearts of men."
Men

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