Wallace Stevens Quotes
Perhaps, The man-hero is not the exceptional monster, But he that of repetition is most master.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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I grew up with all kinds of people.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, George W. Bush, or Yasser Arafat?
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I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.
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Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.
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A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.
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I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.
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There's only so much you can do until you get on set and see the aesthetics of what you're dealing with. Then you see what the other players are giving to you. It's all about the transfer of energy between different actors.
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Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.
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I feel naked without jewelry. If I'm having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.
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Senators don't really provide good gossip - until they do, and then it's an A1 story and they're out of a job.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I feel like Black Milk has found his way of putting his life into his music. I feel like, lyrically, he is a beast; a lot of people sleep on Black Milk. Black Milk is a monster. He from church. He from the street. He get down how I get down. He's a soulful cat, and I love how he get down.
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Perhaps, The man-hero is not the exceptional monster, But he that of repetition is most master.
