"In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way."
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"I don't know what happiness is. I don't know what sweet caress is. Still, I'm always laughing like a clown."
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"Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security."
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"I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me."
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"It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman."
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"When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it."
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"In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time."
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"I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that."
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"Life is so short, so beautiful. Don't be so serious about work. Enjoy the lives."
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"There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against it."
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"In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly."
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"It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself."
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"We're living on the Planet of the Apes. Is that funny or serious?"
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"If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there."
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"The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong"
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"Life's greatest reward is life itself"
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"Sometimes you say things with a smile with the precise intention of making it clear that you are not being serious, and are only kidding. If I salute a friend with a smile and say, "How are you, you old scoundrel!" clearly I don't really mean he's a scoundrel."
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"You probably wouldn't remember. I probably couldn't forget."
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"There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope."
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"I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important."
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