Walter Scott Quotes
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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Beauty is not just physical.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
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You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.
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I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.
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When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.'
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I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
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I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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If you had all the world's information directly attached to your brain, or an artificial brain that was smarter than your brain, you'd be better off.
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For a DJ at my level, you can really go through life and travel the world without seeing a single thing. It's harder to go out and see the sights than it is to play a show.
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Everything you can imagine is real.
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To save the Theatre, the Theatre must be destroyed, and actors and actresses all die of the Plague ... they make art impossible.
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I think it's very important that we should pass on to our future generations… the things we've learnt.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
