"Not for the first time, I reflected that intimacy and romance are not synonymous."
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"The first sign on a declining civilization is a decline in the arts."
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"It was genuinely eye-opening for me to read Tolstoy or Steinbeck or Colette for the first time and to feel as though they were speaking to me."
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"I try not to make social consciousness a massive part of my music or comedy because I prefer to be an entertainer first and foremost, then do actual grassroots work when I can."
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"When I slid into comedy, naturally the first thing I said was, "hello, I am a washed up rapper.""
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"In fact, I bought our first family television with my own money, putting it on credit and then paying it off every week."
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"I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."
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"...and the renewed shock had nearly made him spill his drink. He drained it quickly before anything serious happened to it. He then had another quick one to follow the first one down and check that it was all right."
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"Ok," he said, "I don't like to disturb you at what I know must be a difficult and distressing time for you, but I need to know first of all if you actually realize that this is a difficult and distressing time for you."
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"In 2009, Scott Rudin sent me August's [Wilson] original screenplay [Fences] and asked me what I wanted to do with it. He wanted to know if I wanted to act in it, direct it or produce it. I said, "Well, let me read it first.""
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"A lot of people bring it to me at conventions. At first I was going, "I can't sign that. That's not me." And now I just say, "Eh, whatever.""
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"[Albert Camus] is The First Man because he is poor, which has never been much to human beings."
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"You end up beating your head against a wall again, it doesn't work. Not if you make an abstraction of man. That's why [Albert] Camus is more a la mode now, because he always says 'yes, but there's man. That's the first thing, because myself, I'm a man.' And that's what solidarity ."
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"It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader."
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"Often my very first flash of colour recognition, before it has been processed by the rest of the information in my brain, is the right one."
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"I am concerned about the economy. I was the first one laid off."
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"The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn't think I had it in me ever, and I wasn't terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties. That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality."
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"My first show was 'The King and I' when I was five."
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"The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited."
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"I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last."
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