John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
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I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don't think it's so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don't want to do that.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.
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It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hour's bombardment unscratched. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
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I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet. Anybody who could possibly call himself a poet just cannot be a poet.
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The freshwater fish fauna of Florida is one of the most interesting in the United States. It is a fauna developed in a region of recent geologic origin, low topographic relief, poor drainage, and unusual geographic configuration, and consequently exhibits certain very peculiar features. Some of the characteristic continental groups apparently have not had time to establish themselves in the peninsula since its elevation above the sea, while others have doubtless failed to find suitable conditions in its low and swamp-bordered water courses.
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My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to touch what has never taken corporeal form or crystallized. It made me understand that touching something is half the task of comprehending it, and that what we grasp therein is part of what we desire from it.
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Beauty lies not in the things we see, but in the soul.
