Brian Aldiss Quotes
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
Abel Korzeniowski
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
Carice van Houten
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
Magic Johnson
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To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
Sam Worthington
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
Walton Goggins
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
Tahar Rahim
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
Rainbow Rowell
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
B. C. Forbes
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Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.
Edouard Manet
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'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.
Taylor Hicks
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In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never have imagined myself doing.
Floyd Skloot
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Despotism is a long crime.
Victor Hugo
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I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.
Zoe Kravitz
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
Jack Lemmon
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I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.
Zoe Saldana
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A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive.
Hamza Yusuf
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How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive.
George Eliot
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I lead a very disciplined life.
Marie Helvin
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You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.
Penn Badgley
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When you do RAW or Wrestlemania or a PPV where there's 10,000 people or more, you don't necessarily look at the people. The only time there's a realization that there's that many people is when you walk to the ring. Once you get in the ring, your focus is only on the ring, and maybe the front few rows.
Kevin Nash
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He came in shouting 'goal of the season' - typical Jonjo. He's got that in the locker.
Garry Monk
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When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.
Brian Aldiss