Francois Rabelais Quotes
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.
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Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
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I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.
Nastassja Kinski -
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.
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For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.
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I certainly went to New York because I was searching. Most people who go to New York are searching.
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My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.
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Sometimes we never see what failure is and often fail to recognize it.
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There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world.
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'Love has a language that transcends all languages, all barriers and all distance.'
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In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.
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As an actress, you have to keep yourself fresh and new.
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Getting elected to the National Academy of Sciences is the ultimate peer recognition.
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Christ, he was paranoid about criticism. I used to say: why doesn't he worry about the team and forget what people are saying? He got Phil Thompson, who was a kid coming through when I was a Liverpool player, to have a go at me. So now I don't talk to him.
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I drink no more than a sponge.
