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"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."
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"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast."
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"I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into."
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"Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet."
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"The contest of world's tallest skyscraper is a childish thing. Whereas with similar budget, they could construct flying building."
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"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."
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"She wore so much thick white makeup in order to conceal her naturally rosy complexion that if she turned around suddenly her face would probably end up on the back of her head."
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"The greatest crime in human history was not the creation of the armaments of warfare and destruction of life, but the invention of hand mirror, which enticed humankind to peer at their surface appearance instead of seeking spiritual salvation. Prior to the invention of the mirror, people saw themselves through other people's eyes or by looking deep within themselves."
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"Even eighty-odd is sometimes vulnerable to vanity."
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"When we see that almost everything men devote their lives to attain, sparing no effort and encountering a thousand toils and dangers in the process, has, in the end, no further object than to raise themselves in the estimation of others; when we see that not only offices, titles, decorations, but also wealth, nay, even knowledge[1] and art, are striven for only to obtain, as the ultimate goal of all effort, greater respect from one's fellowmen,-is not this a lamentable proof of the extent to which human folly can go?"
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"Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen."
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"Every actor wants to direct."
Actor
"Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples."
Life
"The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before."
Fault
"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."
Vanity
"You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition."
Modernity
"I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent."
God
"I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder."
Sense
"Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission."
People
"You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it."
Time
"I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing."
Beauty
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