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"That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick."
"I think it's very useful to be insulated from your surrounds, because it gives you your inviolate privacy, without pressures, so that you can just be yourself."
"That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally."
"Nothing belongs more fully to an artist than his creation - even if you give him your youth, your money, your love, your courage, nothing belongs to you."
"Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot."
"He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is."
"And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything."
"We only borrow the breaths we take in life. Every breath we borrow we give back, including our last. In the end, no matter how we lived, we all die feeling owed."
"This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. And they say Obama's not black enough!"
"I would not be you for a kingdom.' The remark was too naïve to rouse anger; I merely said - 'Very good.' 'And what would you give to be ME?' she inquired. 'Not a bad sixpence - strange as it may sound', I replied. 'You are but a poor creature.' 'You don't think so in your heart.' 'No; for in my heart you have not the outline of a place: I only occasionally turn you over in my brain."
"I was four when I started modeling. My mom was very much an off-the-stage mom who knew nothing about the business. She married my stepdad when I was about four, and he had been an actor. Because I was a really smiley kid and could read, which is something they're always looking for, she just decided to give it a shot."
"...in that drunken place you would like to hand your heart to her and say touch it but then give it back."
"I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer."
"Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.' 'You poor boy."
"Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents."
"Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of "analytic" propositions."
"Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes."
"Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can]."
"If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it."
"I think periods of browsing during which no occupation is imposed from without are important in youth because they give time for the formation of these apparently fugitive but really vital impressions."
