Billy Howle Quotes
My mum is a theatrical person. I saw a tape of a theatre project she did when I was a kid. I was really affected by the idea that my mum could turn herself into someone else for the purpose of telling a story.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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I can always go back to education.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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I never thought of being disadvantaged.
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This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
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Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species.
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The totem pole, for example, is a remnant from an era where there was much greater communication between man and the animals - when, in fact, men went to the animals to learn, and from them first acquired knowledge of herbs and corrective medicinal behavior.
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I think if I could do it over again - as much as I loved meeting the people I did on the films after 'Matilda' - I wish that I had stopped after 'Matilda.' I wish that I had just focused on my own life for a while.
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Theres nothing more fierce than the female, like the momma lion. Believe me, my wife is a good example.
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As business leaders, we should not choose between profit or good; rather, we must choose to profit from good. And that requires connecting what we do with a purpose beyond profit - a reason to exist that meets our shared sense of 'doing good.'
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My mum is a theatrical person. I saw a tape of a theatre project she did when I was a kid. I was really affected by the idea that my mum could turn herself into someone else for the purpose of telling a story.
