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Quotes by Director
"Showing up is 80 percent of life."
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"I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash."
22
"I'm not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
22
"I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers and they are going to make a game out of it."
22
"The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going."
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"Those are just some of the people whom we interviewed in the documentary, but that should provide you with a good sense of the credibility of the individuals who bolster the case that this administration lied us into a war."
21
"There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them."
21
"What is fascinating is that it is physical. You know, that's one thing about intellectuals, they've proved that you can be absolute brilliant and have no idea what's going on. But on the other hand, the body doesn't lie, as we now know. Nono, it'll be great, because all of those ph.Ds are in there, like, discussing modes of alienation, and we'll be in here quietly humping."
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"I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse."
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"I don't believe in God. Just try getting a plumber on the weekend."
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"Ninety percent of living is just showing up."
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"What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters."
Love,
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"When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room."
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"Yes, the experience of all stages of life are valuable, not just of youth."
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"I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100."
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"I can't do anything to death, doctor's orders."
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"One must have one's delusions to live. If you look at life too honestly and clearly, life becomes unbearable because it's a pretty grim enterprise, you will admit."
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"What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?"
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"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank."
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"Is sex dirty? Only when it's being done right."
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"There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope."
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"It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before."
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