John Philpot Curran Quotes
My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
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I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'
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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
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For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
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I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.
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The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.
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He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
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What you have to do is to look at what's going to keep our economic growth going, what's going to make sure jobs are being created.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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There was no miracle that night.
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We can use music as a tool to overcome things. It was a beautiful age and realization for me, an awakening. I felt like my eyes were opened. It was like, you mean to tell me that I have the opportunity when I'm bottling stuff up, wanting to smash windows and breaking down walls, I can put that energy into a song and wake up the next day with that weight lifted?
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One thing I've found is that if you educate and show people the risk, they will do something about it.
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My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.
