Bob Hoskins Quotes
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
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I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.
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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
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There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
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I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.
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I do myself up kind of like a doll. I have a doll collection and I look at their outfits and kind of imitate them.
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There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait.
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There's no way to reconstruct reality. It happened once. What you do is reinterpret and recreate. Even if you have the person who lived it and did it next to you, the event happened just once.
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I could stand to lose some weight.
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A little roller up along first; behind the bag! It gets through Buckner! Here comes Knight and the Mets win it!
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It could never happen in Denmark, Danish people are much more calm than those further south.
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A vine bears three grapes, the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance.
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I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human. I felt very very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superman.'
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I wrote my first piece about the disruption of the Harvard Business School in 1999. Because you could see this coming. I haven't yet done the one about the disruption of the Stanford Business School.
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Dominic Sherwood would always tell me a joke right before it was my take or my close up. He'd say a funny joke, and I couldn't stop laughing, even after they said, 'Action.'
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Choose equality.
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GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of rustling all day Like rabbit and deer Running away. But the mountains I raise Elude my embrace, Flowing over my arms And into my face. I may load and unload Again and again Till I fill the whole shed, And what have I then? Next to nothing for weight, And since they grew duller From contact with earth, Next to nothing for color. Next to nothing for use. But a crop is a crop, And who's to say where The harvest shall stop?
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I find if I just sit down and think, a solution presents itself.
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No, no, no, Hooch told himself silently. Getting even don’t amount to nothing in this world. Getting even only gets you behind. The best revenge is to get rich enough to make them all call you sir, that’s how you get even with these boys.
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If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.
