Pliny the Elder Quotes
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
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I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.
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Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
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I have a wife and a son and daughter. What do I need to do to make their lives better, happier? What can I do in terms of my time or my attention given that I am very busy at work? That's a personal rule of thumb I live by from the moment I get up to the moment I go to bed.
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I remember the day after the general election when Harold Wilson had lost, I remember quite clearly cycling from my house in Hutton along Long Ridings and feeling what a relief to live in a country with a Tory government again.
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I've done things that I wouldn't ordinarily seem capable of doing. And I've proven myself in situations where there's life and death at stake. And so, I can live with myself knowing that it's not a matter of guts or anything like that. It's a matter of willingness to go the length, to transcend yourself.
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Live for this life as though you live in it forever and live for the life to come as though you die tomorrow.
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Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.
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The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
