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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But the best thing Washington can do for education is realize that our role is limited. Washington must keep its promises, but let those who know our childrens' names- parents, teachers and school board members- make education decisions.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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Of course I am happy to play in any of the attacking roles, but for me, where I can score the most goals is down the middle.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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There's this idea that artists are free and that means that we can do whatever we want to do. And it's very important to engage with this idea, just as human beings, that we are free to do what we wanna do. So the real question becomes, then, what do we wanna do? And as one gets to know oneself, one finds that there are things that return again and again that you wanna do.
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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.
