Katherine Mansfield Quotes
Were we positive, eager, real - alive? No, we were not. We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.
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My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.
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I'm a historian in my own mind.
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Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand. I think the OpenBSD crowd is a bunch of masturbating monkeys, in that they make such a big deal about concentrating on security to the point where they pretty much admit that nothing else matters to them.
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When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.
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There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf. And this is being intensified by the very solutions required to resolve the economic problems.
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'Skins' wanted to create a new thing by actually casting real teenagers. I think it was very brave of them. They also wanted to give the opportunity to people who didn't go to drama school.
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The Clinton Administration has been downsizing our military for the last seven years, and the Kosovo crisis has exposed how our national security is now in real danger.
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Were we positive, eager, real - alive? No, we were not. We were a nothingness shot with gleams of what might be.
