Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
Paddy Considine
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
J. Michael Straczynski
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
Harry Browne
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
J. William Fulbright
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I still keep my accent.
Samantha Fox
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Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
Ed Sheeran
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
Sam Simon
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
Natalie Dormer
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And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.
Gabriel Byrne
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
Wale
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
Ziggy Marley
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When I die? Fuck it, I wanna go to hell, 'cause I'm a piece of shit. It ain't hard to fuckin' tell.
The Notorious B.I.G.
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When you ride fast and then rest for a bit, it causes a spike in your heart rate and helps your body deal with lactic acid. But you don't need to make it too complicated. Yorkshire is perfect because the hills work as intervals - you ride up them hard and then recover before the next one. Or you can just sprint to the next tree or lamppost.
Alistair Brownlee
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I think people can generally trust me, but they can trust me exactly because they know they don't have to.
Linus Torvalds
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The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.
Doug Stanhope
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Most of the world's ills, it seemed to him, were caused by men who believed themselves important: on a good day it always ended in tears, on a bad day in global destruction. Oliver was not a man to start a war or provoke pestilence: his icons were the makers of music, the tellers of tales, the clowns and the balladeers, and a
Alan Plater
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In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
