Orlando Bloom Quotes
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the '30s - building railways, etc., but when you don't have that, you must be far more cautious.
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I'm in a really nice position because I can be selective with the modeling jobs that I do and just work with brands I'm passionate about. The two worlds balance out nicely for me because modeling is so social - it has travel, you meet people, it's extroverted. Whereas painting is very solitary - when I paint, I'm kind of in my own world.
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.
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Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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It was not a fashionable place, but even among the pleasant people there, the girls made few friends, preferring to live for one another.
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Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples. But August stands apart, ... He has his special way of seeing things. I remember he and I were at one of those fancy benefits the Rep has. The gay men's chorus was singing, and I was very proud to have brought them into a Rep event. And August says, 'You know, I don't see any black people up there.' That was his focus the lives of black people.
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They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.
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I like waking up in the morning and thinking, 'Mmm, I might go to Paris today.' I don't want to ask anyone if they want to come with me or mind me going. I like being my own agent. I have my grandsons and son. If I didn't have them, it would be different.
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Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.
