James D'arcy Quotes
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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I like to frequent antiques shops and flea markets like the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
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Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
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One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
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From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations.
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Photography is always a kind of stealing. A theft from the subject. Artists are assaulters in a lot of ways, and the viewer is complicit in that assault.
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The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every one of these viruses that passes from animals to humans has the capacity to infect all of us.
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The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.
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We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.
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Kirstie Alley seems like she's absolutely amazing.
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I know how to hit a mark without looking. I instinctively know where my eye line should be. That's all 100%. But your character and the story are always different, so the emotional part is not muscle memory. You're still surprised by stuff and get the adrenaline.
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Anyone who has to write an obituary for me one day will probably say, 'She did absolute depths of agony really well.' I'm not, however, an unhappy person.
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Have faith in God. It will make you dig deeper and become a better leader.
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Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.
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You have to have a fundamental change in the culture of policing, and who is the police person. How do they change? How do you learn from England and the other places, or Australia? In England, they don't carry guns on the whole. It's a different kind of mentality that does not demonize, and it's justified on race and income and class.
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Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
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I'm not really very ambitious.
