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"I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with."
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"What a joy it is to dance and sing!"
Dance
"The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick."
Experience
"Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome."
Movies
"I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with."
God
"To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with."
Future
"Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production."
Dream
"You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself."
Love
"In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of."
Man
"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms."
Reading
"The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation."
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"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."
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Personal Development
"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."
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Personal Development
"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
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Personal Development
"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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Personal Development
"Conscience is God present in man."
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Personal Development
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
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Personal Development
"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
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Personal Development
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
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Personal Development
"Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid."
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