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" When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives me some latitude to write about others. "

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" As an actor and a fledgling director, I'm used to making snap decisions that I'll have to live with. "

" One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it's all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal - all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal - like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates. "

" Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated. "

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" If you treat China like a foe, surely she will become one. "

" I like all of John Carpenter's movies. 'The Thing' is my favorite. "

" I sadly never got to my prom. I was shooting 'The Outsiders.' "

" Oh my God, I love rehab! I highly recommend it. "

" I don't like being taken for granted anywhere in life. I don't want my vote taken for granted. "

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" My two sons are the most important things in the world to my wife and I - they are what I build my world around. "

" I always like stories where the egg ends up on my face. "

" I couldn't have gotten sober without rehab because I needed the science. "

" I am still in love with my wife. "

" The Brat Pack is timeless. "

" When I was filming 'The Outsiders,' my idea of success was getting the next Martin Scorsese movie. "

" In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel. "

" Television is populated with commitment-phobes. "

Rob Lowe

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" I'm not unashamed to say that I like movies that make me verklempt. "

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" Getting married isn't going to make your relationship better. It's just a ceremony. "

" Tom Ford, who is my all-time favourite, once said to me, 'Here's the thing about dress shirts, Rob. You need white, and you need black.' 'What about blue,' I asked. He said, 'Have you ever seen Cary Grant in a blue dress shirt?' "

" I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume. She always reminded me a little bit of my mother, so I feel a great affinity. I love the precision of Didion's writing. There's a construction and a craftsmanship to her sentences that's imbued with so much emotion. "

" My life and the lives of many across the world have been deeply affected by lymphoma. "

" Some actors specialize in shooting weapons and punching people. Some have the market on playing buffoons cornered, others specialize in roles that require heavy makeup or outrageous wardrobe. Some trade exclusively in a post-ironic blase attitude. "

" I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon. "

" In comedy you have to be willing to not take yourself seriously, you know? I take comedy really seriously, and so to take comedy seriously, you must not, you cannot, ever take yourself seriously. "

" I - you know, I loved politics more as a younger man. "

" I like the way you can circumvent the media gatekeepers and go right to the people. That's my favorite thing about Twitter. "

" I was a child of the '80s. "

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" Look, I owns guns. "

" I would've loved Jack Kennedy. I would've loved to have campaigned for him and supported him. I wish there were more like him today. "

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