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"The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work. And I didn't think about the material as much. But sometimes I've thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn't work out."
"As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life."
"We don't have any miraculous way of avoiding taxes at Wesco and Berkshire."
"I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am."
"I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in."
"The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death."
"Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed."
"There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity."
"Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not."
"I was always 'awake'...Some part of me clamoring for NEW insights and NEW ways to make the world a better place."
"I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time."
"Our way lies not in human ingenuity, but in a return to God."
"I had ambitions to set out and find, like an odyssey or going home somewhere, set out to find this home that I'd left a while back and couldn't remember exactly where it was, but I was on my way there. And encountering what I encountered on the way was how I envisioned it all. I didn't really have any ambition at all. I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so, I'm on my way home, you know?"
"Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about."
"Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way."
"Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles."
"He was a natural, and in the Russian way, tragically above these banalities."
"When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way."
"Have you ever seen a one trick pony in the field so happy and free? If you've ever seen a one trick pony then you've seen me Have you ever seen a one-legged dog making his way down the street? If you've ever seen a one-legged dog then you've seen me."
"You can’t have your daughter as long as you have a concept of her. When you get rid of the concept, you meet your daughter for the first time. That’s the way this works."
