Paul Weller Quotes
I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.
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For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.
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There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.
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The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.
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I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.
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I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
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I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.
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Everywhere, people are discovering that doing things more slowly often means doing them better and enjoying them more. It means living life instead of rushing through it. You can apply this to everything from food to parenting to work.
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At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.
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Oh, poverty parts good company.
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Bdelycleon: It is so that you may know only those who nourish you (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.
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Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
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I do know in the 1960s comics, Martian Manhunter took on the form of a black man - that could have been influenced by the political climate back then.
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There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.
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When the attention started to be about my figure, I was surprised, because it wasn't something I was focused on.
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Shoes define how you walk in the world and how you stand: like, what is your posture in life?
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I got into the business because I love writing. When it came down to finding my voice, which every writer has to take time to do, I think I realized I write black people very well. I write us in a very honest way, and I want to hear the way we really talk.
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If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it.
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I've got to come into the day enjoying myself and go from there.
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For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
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I believe there should be no arbitrary date set for withdrawal and yet no permanent, unending deployment. No cut and run, yet measured progress in helping a people who want to be free without an illusion of overnight success.
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I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.
