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 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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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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You could pack for a trip to Europe with the bags under my eyes!
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If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.
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As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
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You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
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I love to give money away. I don't know if it makes my children and grandchildren all that happy.
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Steady of heart, and stout of hand.
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There is, of course, no larger mass hysteria in American history than the epidemic of racism.
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Toastmasters changed my life. They really did. Put me on the stage. I don’t know what I would have done without that positive boost.
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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.
