Katherine Mansfield Quotes
I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.
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If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.
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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
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I don't like allegories.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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When I'm in the studio, I'm strictly thinking about the beats, the rhymes and the song. The decision I make once the songs are created, and there's a barcode put on the package, and I'm out there in the street selling it, those decisions as a businessman are different than the creative decisions you make.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.
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We filmed 'Expelled' in Santa Clarita at an all-girl's school. There were twelve hour days.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
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In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody's in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.
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Things don't happen for no reason.
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I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.
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I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat.
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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
