John le Carre Quotes
I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him to join me and listen to me, and if he is fidgeting in his chair, I know I am not doing my job. I am a storyteller, and I know most people like a story.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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My health is fine.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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I moved to L.A. and watched a lot of local television news, and I started to see the burn logos up on the upper right hand corner - On-Scene Video, RMG Media Group, and all these other ones. I just became intrigued with it.
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And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.
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You have so much freedom as an actor in your character's choices, and I really learned to take advantage of that.
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Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.
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People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
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I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him to join me and listen to me, and if he is fidgeting in his chair, I know I am not doing my job. I am a storyteller, and I know most people like a story.
