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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.

Action All My Life Always Fighting
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I've done my time. I've done it as well and as respectfully as I think anyone can.

Anyone Done I Think My Time
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I want to show audiences I can act.
Act Audiences I Can Show
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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

Action Action Films American American Family
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

America I Can Kind Like
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When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.

American American Film Because Doing
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I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.

Action Actor Audience Believe
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I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Always Another Been Cannot
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As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.

Admit Different Fans Feelings
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Despise Enough Few People
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With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

About Day Day-To-Day Else
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I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

Cannot Will Recant Anything
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I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

American Average AverageAmerican BeHappy
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

Desire Give Nothing Reason
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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

Mind Never Satisfied
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Others have done it before me. I can, too.

Others Done I can
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

American Literature British Source
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It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

Shame Work Eight hours Eat
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People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do --after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty

People Sympathetic Capacity Stronger
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Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

Consists Made Many Reality
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Candle Dark God High
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Dream Higher Bother Contemporary
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

Control Direct Emotions Properly
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If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything

Reincarnated Buzzard Envies Danger
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Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Man Performs Engenders Bear
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Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

Precious Invisible Give Powers
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Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

Been Want Who You
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Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.

Tragedy Universe Physical Fear
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

Hollywood Place Stabbed Climbing
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We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Freedom Hierarchy Caste System
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and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forgot the words . . .

Sin Love Sound People
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The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat.

Young man Forgotten Problems Heart
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

Alone Attacks Because Body
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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

Alchemy Chemist He Medicine
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

Alchemy Founder Process Smith
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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Added Clear ClearConscience Conscience
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Absorb After Changes Detail
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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

Style Prose Fancy Count
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

African Dreams Genius Snow
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The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.
Wave Explain Sea Whole
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Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

More Perilous Revelation Revolution
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Far Flourishing Greater Happy
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It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

Active Banking Capital Country
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When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

When I Am Angry
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I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

Conversation Cry Easily Movie
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Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

Changing Changing The World Creative Everybody
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You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

Afraid Cannot Get Getting
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.

After Back Change Come
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Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

American American Film American Writers Directors
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Speaking English is like tongue-twist for me. I can speak each word perfect, but then you have to string them together like, 'Blah, blah, blah.' That's when I get crazy.

Blah Crazy Each English
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