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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A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.
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By 1949, there was no more work for me out there, and I went to New York in 1950 and just did whatever I could. Mainly television. Some Broadway. A lot of dinner theater work, which is not a very satisfactory medium.
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Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.
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I see the role of a rabbi or a pastor in general sort of like the role of a quarterback who throws the ball a little bit ahead of the receiver - that is you want to make people run just a bit to catch up to the message that you offer.
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I believe the Times is a great newspaper, but a profoundly fallible one.
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Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.
