I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, `Man, you were so honest - can`t you have some fun? Can`t you do some really down and dirty lying?` But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I`l...
Willem Dafoe
You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.
James Young
When they talk about family values, it`s in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.
James Hillman
The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.
Henry Cabot Lodge
I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, `Man, you were so honest - can`t you have some fun? Can`t you do some really down and dirty lying?` But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I`l...
Willem Dafoe
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.
Howard Nemerov
And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn`t just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.
Rene Auberjonois