"I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going."
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"But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face."
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"There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband."
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"I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real."
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"There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him."
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"Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town."
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"The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you."
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"The real name for 'science' is magic."
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"The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented lives of guys like Lenny Bruce, Giordano Bruno, Scott Fitzgerald - and Paul Krassner. The burrs under society's saddle. The pains in the ass."
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"The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it. So, I don't go out there [thinking], "Oh, I want to make this as silly as possible." In fact, sometimes I get the most enjoyment out of a sketch that plays very real - and it's so real that it's just funny."
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"Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it."
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"Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden on the children and regrouped under one roof."
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"He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood."
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"Real feminism is spinsterhood."
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"Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring: gliding through his mind. It slipped into his lungs, behind his eyes, into his mouth."
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"When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two."
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"There's an edge to real rock 'n' roll. It's all that matters."
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"The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in love."
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"People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others."
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"Scripts are corny and predictable. Real life is always better."
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