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"There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly."
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"Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based."
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"If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves."
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"Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead."
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"Sometimes you could tell what it was about - it was interesting - and sometimes it was quite obvious that someone had lost it and it was on an endless loop."
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"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."
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"Never assume the obvious is true."
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"The great discoveries are usually obvious."
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"On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself."
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"I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer."
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"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety."
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"It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength."
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"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
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"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."
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"Ambition is not a vice of little people."
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"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul."
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"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum."
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"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."
Being

"I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older."
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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
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"It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity."
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