Emil Cioran Quotes
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
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Going to rehearsals of school plays got me out of science. It became clear what inspired me and what dampened my spirit. The only other thing I could do at school was trampolining - it didn't seem to have much future in it.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do.
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Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.
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One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
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I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
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My message to business leaders is clear: If you are looking to expand your business and boost the bottom line, there is no better place than Utah to do it.
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My childhood was appalling.
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In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.
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I've always thought about my legacy - more so, though, my impact off the field and how I'm helping my community and solidifying and strengthening the lives of others around me. And also, I just want to be a dominant football player, too. So it encompasses everything.
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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I didn't think that the government would go as far as to include American citizens to be interned without a hearing.
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Growning up I felt incredibly guilty anout my fantasies and the things I wanted sexually. I was like: "Why do I feel this way? I don't understand it, but nobody's going to talk to me about it because we're not allowed to talk about that..."
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Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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Only one guy can be world champion, and so if everyone else thought they were failures you'd have no one left on the grid.
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What is marvelous is that each day brings us a new reason to disappear.
