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You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.
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You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
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You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.
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You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.
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You begin by always expecting good things to happen
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You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do.
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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.
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You can only give things up once they start to let you down.
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You can only punish your body so long before you're stuck with a horrendous inability to do things you'd previously been able to do.
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You can't create a movie as you think about it. And what's in the scene is not what's being seen. A shot always means something other than what it is. All are vehicles. A landscape is just a vehicle. The viewer might think different things, and I'm not going to intervene.
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You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.
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You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.
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You can't try to do things; you simply must do them.
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You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.
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You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you.
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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
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