Max Beerbohm Quotes
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.
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If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.
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What's nice about 'Skinwalkers' is it's allowing an audience to see a different Indian perspective... I think, for myself, I'm trying to put the Indian perspective in a different dimension.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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And then Zach said a really bad word, but I doubt DeeDee noticed because it was in Farsi.
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Well, fans always root for the underdog.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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I would love to learn how to paint motorcycles and stuff like that. I really, really am fascinated by that.
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No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
