Karen Blixen Quotes
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I loved the world of imagination.
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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I try to play like I did when I was a young boy playing in my garden. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not so good, but I try to always make sure I give my best to help the team, even if I am not having the best game myself.
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
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Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
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My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!
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Our first challenge is to ensure safety of pilgrims, and we will use modern technology for that. We will strengthen our telecom network and will provide special mobile apps to the pilgrims at the time of registration.
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We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.
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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
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We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.
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Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.
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There's a tradition in war writing that the veteran goes over and sees the truth of war and comes back. And I'm skeptical of that.
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People are always saying they loved me in 'Titanic.'
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The theater has kept me alive, and it's allowed me to work at my craft.
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Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.