David Hume Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
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I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
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I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is shorter than me and has an amazing gait; and Tom Cruise has a brilliant run. I'm just gangly.
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As someone from a developing country, I have a problem with rich countries thinking they can tell us anything, simply because they are giving money.
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People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone.
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I don't feel like I'm a writer who works under any influence.
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I just feel lucky that I somehow escaped from the confines of the business class... I feel so fortunate that somehow I managed to break out of that world and get to do something that really had more meaning.
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You have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter. If you do it for other causes, other reasons, it doesn't hold you for a long time. There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film.
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To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.
