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Tom Wolfe

"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past."

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Donna Grant

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

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Donna Grant

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

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Donna Grant

"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."

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Donna Grant

"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."

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Donna Grant

"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."

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Donna Grant

"I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like."

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Donna Grant

"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."

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Donna Grant

"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."

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Donna Grant

"Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell."

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Donna Grant

"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."

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Tom Wolfe
"We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history."

History

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Tom Wolfe
"On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe."

Universe

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Tom Wolfe
"The surest cure for vanity is loneliness."

Cure

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Tom Wolfe
"There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves."

Act

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Tom Wolfe
"Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions."

Society

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Tom Wolfe
"The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened."

Art

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Tom Wolfe
"There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone."

Time

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Tom Wolfe
"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past."

Acting

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Tom Wolfe
"If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested."

Conservative

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Tom Wolfe
"It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved."

Fact

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