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“Damn Americans. I hate those bastards.”
Source : 'Like sleeping with an insomniac elephant'" by Anne McIlroy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2004.
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“We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.”
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“It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation.”
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“He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.”
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“I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.”
Source : "Q+A: The State of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 15, 2012.
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“The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.”
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“If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the sense of youth. To admire, to expand one's self, to forget the rut, to have a sense of newness and life and hope, is to feel young at any time of life.”
Source : Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.314, Transaction Publishers
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“When I look at myself as a younger actor, I see what a tight ***** I was. I had a pretty big shadow because of my father and the comparisons. I was self-conscious about that. Now I realize there was nothing to be worried about.”