Hamish Bowles Quotes
I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
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See, as much as I love the game, golf was my vehicle to competition. And I love to compete.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
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People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.
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Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great aunt was a woman called Greer Garson.
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Sometimes we complain without thinking much of it, but the frightening thing about complaining is that every time we do, a cloud descends over our heart, and our hope, appreciation and joy gradually wane.
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I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters.
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My mother endlessly told me I was too fat, that I wasn't a patch on my sister. It wasn't much fun growing up with her and her almost irrational social climbing in that huge house of my dull stepfather Hughdie Auchincloss in Washington.
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Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.
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I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.
