One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
JAMES DEANBeing a senior in high school means you’re not only getting closer to adulthood, but also ready to start thinking about your dreams and aspirations, whether that’s applying for college, joining the military, or seeing the world.
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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics.
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At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it’s a challenge to pull any idea together.
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Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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It is the best thing that can happen to an actor. I am one of the youngest to belong. If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress
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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
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If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.
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Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director’s task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over.
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How can you measure acting in inches?
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I’m a serious-minded and intense little devil – terribly gauche and so tense that I don’t see how people can stay in the same room as me. I know I couldn’t tolerate myself.
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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he’s dead, then maybe he was a great man.
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If I had one day when I didn’t have to be all confused and didn’t have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?
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