W. H. Auden Quotes
The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.
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The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
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With so many of our fundamental rights hanging in the balance, it is not good enough to simply roll the dice, hoping a nominee has changed his past views. It's not good enough to think, 'This is the best we can expect from this president'.
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I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
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There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.
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Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
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I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area.
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I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough.
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Don't take too much advice.
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I think it actually is easier for players to abstain from watching than it is for people who haven't experienced it. I know a wide variety of former players that don't really follow football any more. They've kind of had that cathartic experience. They know what it is.
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I used to dislike it, but now I like it more and more, feeling small. I like feeling like a little speck.
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The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.
