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Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.

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• The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Die

• Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Past
  • Ocean
  • Creating

• If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Nature
  • Words
  • Opinion

• I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • People
  • Never
  • Forget

• In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V, which relied on a chorus to explain in words the battles of Harfleur and Agincourt that could never be captured on the Elizabethan stage.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Words
  • Star
  • Never

• The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • You
  • Mistakes
  • Desperate

• Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Fun

• TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Different
  • You
  • Film

• In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Character
  • Broken
  • Laws

• The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Science
  • Church
  • Pretend

• I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Fear

• Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.

  

  Samuel Beckett

• This will end in tears.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Tears

• We cannot accept the fact that Jews wouldn't be entitled to live and buy anywhere in Jerusalem. I can only imagine what would happen if someone suggested Jews could not live in certain neighborhoods in New York, London, Paris or Rome. There would certainly be a major international outcry.

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Live
  • Paris

• The philosophy of friendship has definitely paid off, because after all the highs and lows we’re still sticking together and we haven’t lost the passion for what we’re doing. In the Seventies, there were few changes, then we had this line-up with Herman Rarebell and Francis Buchholz for almost twenty years.

  

  Klaus Meine Scorpions
  • Up
  • Together
  • Lost

• How pleasant it is to respect people! When I see books, I am not concerned with how the authors loved or played cards; I see only their marvelous works.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Respect

• A man's face is not a rich person's lawn; you are wasting resources if you devote that much energy to trimming your beard, sideburns, or mustache just so. Nor is a man's face the woods; there need not be the tangled weeds, shrubbery, and wildlife/eggs benedict that get ensnared in them.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Energy
  • Tangled

• The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.

  

  Atom Egoyan
  • People

• The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Mind

• When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once you build smart environments where, if you meet a certain probabilistic profile, you won't even be allowed to board a bus, let alone commit a crime, we're perpetuating existing laws so they face no challenges or revision.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Debate
  • Commit
  • Bus

• It's always a risky business inviting somebody on stage. You never know what they're going to do. I try to avoid letting people join me onstage because it can be very distracting, and overly theatrical.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Business
  • Stage
  • Inviting

• It's long past time we started focusing on the solutions that actually keep women healthy, instead of using basic aspects of women's health as a tool of cultural, moral, and political control.

  

  Martha Plimpton
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.

  

  Nami Mun
  • Hope
  • Failure
  • Knowing

• Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.

  

  Mark Akenside