Daphne Guinness Quotes
My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me.
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Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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America is another name for opportunity.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.
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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
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My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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What I really like about 'Grit' - especially being the guy who goes on TV every week and says 'Never Give Up' and who truly tries to live his life to that credo - we recruited 16 people who said, 'I will never give up.' And the only way they can leave the contest is by doing the one thing they said they never would.
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You just put your head down and do the work.
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If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.
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My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me.
