John Dos Passos Quotes
Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.
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In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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Tackling still comes down to leverage and owning that leverage and making your hits.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
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When I started out in this business, dance was not at the height it is now. It was almost like, you're either a dancer or an actress.
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Women spend 30 percent more time doing household chores. No surprise. But women also spend more time volunteering in their community. And if you add up all of the hours of non-leisure time, women are working more than men. So I thought that was very interesting, and I was surprised about the voluntarism piece, but when you think about it, it makes sense.
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But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five.
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In Rio Bravo when Duke makes love to Feathers, the scene dissolves to the next morning where we see him putting on his vest and almost humming. It was subtle, but you knew what happened. Give me a towel and some blankets any day!
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As long as a man does not sin, he is feared. As soon as he sins, he himself is in fear.
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Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.
