Darin Strauss Quotes
When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.
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I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.
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I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.
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Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner for the south industry, though I've grown up speaking Hindi. I don't think language can be a barrier when it comes to acting. And, since I come from a theatre background, I'm used to memorizing my lines.
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We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.
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I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.
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I was involved in a bunch of school activities - I was a cheerleader, I was on the chess team, I was vice president of my class.
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I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
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The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human inertia is the problem, not invention. Something in man makes him resist change.
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A secret is a secret in my mind.
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Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates.
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We need to invest in people's lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.
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I refuse to eat animals because I cannot nourish myself by the sufferings and by the death of other creatures. I refuse to do so, because I suffered so painfully myself that I can feel the pain of others by recalling my own sufferings.
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When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.
