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"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."
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"Perfection is a paradigm meant to keep us striving and learning and growing. Like a wondrous sunset, perfection may be beyond our reach, but it is within our view and well worth seeking after."
"The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light."
"Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it."
"Well, you know, I mean, she was so wonderful, and she really played the role to perfection."
"The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done."
"It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection."
"It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others."
"No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves."
"Perfection is born of imperfection."
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"He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world."
"They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good."
"I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake."
"There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy."
"You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart."
"I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are."
"The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly."
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