Emil Cioran Quotes
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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My father had very little formal education.
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We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
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A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
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All your mannerisms change easily when you have inch-long acrylic nails.
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Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.
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Swimming and all other sports have got to get to that place where you have the trust of the people watching it.
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You're always going to have to prove yourself, because acting is such a capricious game.
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Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
