John Dos Passos Quotes
Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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Without a dog, no one will listen to your opinions for more than a few minutes without interrupting to tell you their opinions, which you won't find nearly as interesting.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.
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I don't have phobias. I'm pretty laid back. Nothing really bothers me. I can handle things pretty well.
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If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to sever them and to send you out to sea. You have to get out past the harbor into the great dephts of God, and begin to know things for yourself....beg in to have spiritual discernment. Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been.
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People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct.
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Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.
