Francis Marion Crawford Quotes
No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov
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If we continue to create a world where there is poverty and disrespect, there will continue to be terrorism.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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I didn't know how to write a novel, so I sort of let it happen in waves. The only way I could write it was to think like scenes in a movie.
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I came up professionally as a lawyer, and when you're a lawyer, writing a 50-page brief in one night is just another day at the office. You learn to make choices really quickly, and you learn how to get thoughts down very quickly.
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Everything that I do has to be something new and something challenging, or with people that I want to work with. I take jobs for different reasons.
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No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
