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The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.
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The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
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The less routine the more life.
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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
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The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
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The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
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The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
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The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
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The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.
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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
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The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
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The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
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The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.
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The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.
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The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
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The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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