Christopher Isherwood Quotes
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
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When I was on 'Trauma,' the first order was six, which turned to 12, and then there were rumors of getting cancelled. I'm used to that.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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It fits my ADD, so that's good. Because I really can't focus on anything for too long. And 'Top Gear's really the easiest thing to do because I'm with my pals. It's like coming home with my friends. We're having so much fun making the show.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.
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My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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It is users that are driving the networks with innovations on top of the networks and with innovations in the devices space. This is very healthy.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
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I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
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I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.
Nastassja Kinski -
I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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I think things just happen to people. That's healthier, I feel, than believing there's some grand scheme where your story is already inscribed in the Book of Life. Books get rewritten.
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A man by himself is in bad company.
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'Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to censor some kid who's swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty.'
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The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.
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Sex is the best high. It's better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.
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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
