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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We are seeing entrepreneurs issuing their own blockchain-based tokens to raise money for their networks, sidestepping the traditional, exclusive world of venture capital altogether. The importance of this cannot be overstated - in this new world, there are no companies, just protocols.
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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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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage-an inexorable demand-that we should cease to kill our fellow-creatures for satisfaction of our bodily wants.
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If you have not noticed, we are preparing for war. I’m sorry if that inconveniences you.
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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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Even the strongest bonds, flesh and blood, they can just evaporate in a second given the right conditions.
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The meditator develops new depths of insight through direct communication with the reality of the phenomenal world... He or she is able to see not only the absence of complexity, the absence of duality, but the stoneness of stone and the waterness of water. One sees things precisely as they are, not merely in the physical sense, but with awareness of their spiritual significance.
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If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
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I get labelled as just being about one thing, but there's lots of layers to what I do.
