Charlotte Rampling Quotes
Usually, watching yourself is pretty awful. People think we all love watching our own films. We don't. We cringe away from it.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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Making music is fantastic.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
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I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I really had no preconceptions or expectations for myself or really any rules. It kind of represented, at least for me, a divergent path of creativity and self-discovery.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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There were uncles in my life that definitely knew the street life.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
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I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
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Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
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Sometimes good news is hard to absorb.
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God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity. It seemed a phenomenon of life how a death insinuates us into the debt of those who stand by us in trouble and console us.
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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You know how we say things like "I just have to be true to myself"? What does that mean? Great people always say, "There's something I was meant to do." That knowingness is what the soul understands. You have fundamental agreements that you simply feel. You can't put your finger on them because they reveal themselves to you within the context of your life through coincidence, synchronicity, and obligations you can't get out of. Together, these things form the whole of your sacred contract.
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Usually, watching yourself is pretty awful. People think we all love watching our own films. We don't. We cringe away from it.
