Dirk Bogarde Quotes
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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'Yogi Bear' changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me. 'Yogi Bear' – there's everything before 'Yogi Bear,' and there's everything after 'Yogi Bear.' Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.
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I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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Obviously I love 'The Godfather' movies. I think they're phenomenal.
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I am recognized a lot for 'Clueless,' but I am recognized a great deal for 'The Princess Bride.' I don't know... maybe everybody who has seen that movie just goes out on the street.
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If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.
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I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame. A lot of them don't belong in the Hall of Fame. If someone wants to debate me, check the stats.
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Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations.
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All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
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The juniper-scented liquor had volatilized his thoughts; he should be thinking that madness caused this man to call himself a king, but was thinking rather that kingship had driven this man mad.
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You looked so intense. Whatever you were saying, you seemed to mean it, and it wasn't amusing at all. Started quite a fashion. People keep looking for purpose now. Complicates everything.
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There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation.
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Conventional companies try to find new uses for capabilities they already have. Transformers look at what the market needs and then go build it, hiring new people and/or taking people off other jobs.
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The conclusion of the essay 'Of the Protestant Succession' shows me a Whig, but a very sceptical one.
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With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents of East Europe's overthrow of repressive state socialism. What an invaluable guide to the elusive exhilaration that motivated the actors and captivated all of us who followed the transformation with such hope! We can appreciate neither the ebullience of 1989 nor the disappointment with the quotidian reality that followed without understanding Kenney's 'carnival.'
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Memory is like that. It alters itself so that girls are always trapped under the earth, waiting in the dark.
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I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.
