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"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."
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"The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past."
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"The past is a shadow; the present is real."
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"Drop the past. The past is no more, and the future is not yet."
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"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters that you have read."
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"Your past does not define you, your present does."
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"Maybe, it is easier to forget the past,than to overcome the pain caused by it.Maybe, it is one of some other reasons,why men forget their prehuman ancestor."
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"Today wouldn't have happened if histories weren't falsified."
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"How do you know that past exist?"
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"Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope."
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"Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Thanks for mercies past received."
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Explore more quotes by Joe Eszterhas
"Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life."
Life
"I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer."
Creativity
"From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better."
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"I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking."
Family
"From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing."
Power
"I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness."
Time
"I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power."
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"I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head."
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"I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it."
Nation
"Politics has become entertainment."
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