Christopher Isherwood Quotes
It seems to me that the real clue to your sex orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than in your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy having sex with him.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
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I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.
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Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.
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I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.
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With animation, because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want, the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.
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Often I feel like I can run forever. If someone told me I had to run for 10 hours, I probably could.
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For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
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In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
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It seems to me that the real clue to your sex orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than in your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy having sex with him.
