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"There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
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"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."
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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."
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"I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point."
Actor
"Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine."
American
"I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that."
Work
"Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time."
Marriage
"So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in."
Life
"I think we all have light and dark inside us."
Light
"Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you."
Movies
"If there's anything disgusting in the movie business, it is the whoredom of my peers."
Business
"Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking."
Acting
"At this stage, what would be rewarding would be for audiences to want to watch."
Audience
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