Diogenes Quotes
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
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These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.
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I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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Think about your menu, and if you're not a skilled chef - which I'm not - follow a recipe. You can't go wrong if you don't cut the fine print.
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I love girl power.
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I think there's much more fashion competition in the more junior levels of the fashion department. And that's exciting and stimulating to see, because it's 'Vogue;' it's great to see people dressed originally and with great style and panache. It wouldn't be 'Vogue' otherwise.
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For DC, I'm working on the new 'Red Lanterns' and 'JLA Dark.' Both of these are very different books, which is great for me. I've heard 'JLA Dark' described as a team of people with supernatural powers - but that's only half the story.
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I was lucky that I was getting exposed to a lot of different kinds of films, and I was liking them all. So it seemed logical to me that you could - as in the style of the studio directors of the 30s and 40s - jump from one genre to the next, with the same satisfaction.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
