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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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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We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
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I've played in small markets; I've played in big markets. For me, basketball is inside the arena. It doesn't recognize what market you're in. It's about wins and losses, and that's the way I approach it.
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I knew that there was a great deal of depth and life that was sitting just beyond my mother's gaze.
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The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.
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Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human.
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As I get older, I'm looking more and more for films that are actually about something rather than just narrative vehicles.
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Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.
