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• If I ever had needed to put together a CV, it would be quite short. Like many young people, I'd highlight my desire to work hard.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Sometimes
  • Saying
  • Silent

• I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Art
  • Creative
  • Mathematics

• I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Changing
  • Faults
  • Them

• You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
  • Feel
  • Injuries

• A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Man
  • Tired
  • Retired

• Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Money
  • True

• Polonium is, frankly, pretty useless, and no country in the world except Russia bothered to refine it by the late 2000s.

  

  Sam Kean
  • World
  • Country
  • Pretty

• I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.

  

  N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
  • Way
  • Like
  • Shadow

• The tracks on 'Sleep' were recorded live to 2-track. I did a fadeout or two of them, but that's really it.

  

  Aaron Funk
  • Live
  • Sleep
  • Two

• Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Stand
  • Standup

• Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • World
  • Truth
  • Learning

• But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Never
  • Become
  • Possession

• It's so hard not to smile.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Smile
  • Hard

• Working on 'Outlander' has been a delight, it really has. I had kind of forgotten what Scotland was like, and I'd turned into a bit of a Londoner.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Kind
  • Working
  • Forgotten

• I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Never
  • Personality
  • Famous

• A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • See
  • Generation
  • Market

• I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.

  

  Nana Visitor
  • Love
  • Friends
  • True

• Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

  

  John le Carre
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• My looks haven't prevented me from playing prostitutes or people broken by life. But when they need a token blonde with big breasts, that's OK, too. It's part of the game.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • People
  • Life
  • Game

• Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Revolution
  • Politician
  • Countries

• My basic political principle: If something, whether right- or left-wing, is driven by love and solidarity, it is right; if it is driven by hate and fear it is wrong. Simple as that.

  

  Neel Burton
  • Political
  • Principle
  • Solidarity

• Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

  

  Christo