James Surowiecki Quotes
Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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If you don't get killed, it's a lucky day for anybody.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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Politics is a good thing!
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
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I bring a copy of 'Dracula' with me wherever I go, the book. It's my favorite book in the world, it's absolutely incredible. My great-great grandfather was the guy who printed the first edition, so he's the first person to ever put 'Dracula' on the written page.
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I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.
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You can argue with someone's opinion, but you can't argue with their story.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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I don't mind America becoming a Third World country. The weather is better in the Third World than it is where I live in New Hampshire. And household help will be much cheaper.
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Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.
