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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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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I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.
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Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time.
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To be a winner, you've got to be an appraiser. You've got to be able to play at your best under pressure. And more money creates more pressure. Money is the finest fuel in the world.
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Work a lifetime to pay off a house - You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.
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In professions where the criteria of professionalism, expertise, good manners and ethics apply, the gender aspect, i.e., whether a person is a man or woman, is not relevant at all. What is important is that citizens' confidence in politicians and the politics is strong enough to make politicians proud of their profession.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.
