"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."

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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise."

Leslie Easterbrook, American Actress

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"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

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"It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show."

Jimmy Stewart, American Actor

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"It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes."

Anton Seidl, Hungarian Celebrity

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"I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting."

Stephen Rea, Irish Actor

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"My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now."

Lawrence Eagleburger, American Diplomat

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"There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing."

David Canary, American Actor

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"I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue."

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"Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference."

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"As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy."

Politics

"Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent."

Truth

"No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past."

Wisdom

"In some way the god had to be appeased and satisfied; for his worshipers had made him in the image and dream of themselves, and he had no great regard for human life, or womanly tears."

Religion

"There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away."

History

"So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean."

Society

"The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife."

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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

"I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise."

"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"

"It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show."

"It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes."

"I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting."

"My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now."

"There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing."

"I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue."

"Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference."

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"As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy."

"Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent."

"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."

"There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war."

"All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya."

"No man is educated for statesmanship who cannot see his time from the perspective of the past."

"In some way the god had to be appeased and satisfied; for his worshipers had made him in the image and dream of themselves, and he had no great regard for human life, or womanly tears."

"There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved and still moves a sea of magic, superstition and sorcery. Perhaps they will remain when the works of our reason have passed away."

"So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean."

"The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife."