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“Plans never go well for me. I just live every day like I aint gonna live the next one.”
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“I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.”
Source : FaceBook post by Steven Millhauser from Oct 23, 2016 
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“Some men -- not all men -- see always before them an ideal, a mental picture if you will, of what they ought to be, and are not. Whoso seeks to follow this ideal revealed to the mental vision, whoso seeks to attain to conformity with it, will find it enlarge itself, and remove from him. He that follows it will improve his own moral character, but the ideal will remain always above him and before him, prompting him to new exertions.”
Source : William Batchelder Greene (1872). “The blazing star; with an appendix treating of the Jewish Kabbala, also a tract on the philosophy of H. Spencer, and one on New-England transcendentalism”, p.3
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“Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?”
Source : Interview with Studs Terkel, 1960.
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“After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.”
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“A joke's a very serious thing.”
Source : 'The Ghost' (1763) bk. 4, l. 1386
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“I value my privacy and my personal life - and I certainly don't exploit my personal life.”
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“I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
