James G. Frazer Quotes
The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being.
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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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After thousands of hours of news coverage, we have learned that Hillary is a liar and Barack is a terrorist or something.
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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
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We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.
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Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.
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I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.
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Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.
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I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book.
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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
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There's nothing wrong with the free-enterprise system. But it has to have some compassion.
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The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being.
