Emil Cioran Quotes
I feel effective, competent, likely to do something positive only when I lie down and abandon myself to an interrogation without object or end.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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This high official, all allow, is grossly overpaid; there wasn't any Board, and now there isn't any Trade.
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If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep our minds focused on where we want to go?
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
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I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
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The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'
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Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.
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I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past - not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that's been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better.
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There are very few things that I love more than being on stage and performing, but more than anything, I want to be a positive role model for teenage girls.
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Seek after the good, and with much toil shall ye find it; the evil turns up of itself without your seeking it.
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I feel effective, competent, likely to do something positive only when I lie down and abandon myself to an interrogation without object or end.
