Joseph L. Mankiewicz Quotes
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We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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Nobody ever accused me of pulling any weapon on them. I would never, ever pull a weapon on anybody.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.
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In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can't let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can't.
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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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I had such an amazing experience on 'The Pillowman' that it was hard to think what else is going to live up to that.
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If I didn't have my profession, I think I would be sitting in a nuthouse. But I have been unceasingly at work, and this has been very healthy for me. So I had no need for therapy.
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I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.
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Some critics have been very harsh. That's okay. I like honest criticism.
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I think it's as popular as it ever has been and it continues to grow as it does all around the world.
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Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.
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Gambles are the most fun because it's part of being an actor or being a creative person. It's risky only in the vulnerable sense. And then outside of that, no one gets too hurt by it.
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A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
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I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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We grow primarily through our challenges, especially those life-changing moments when we begin to recognize aspects of our nature that make us different from the family and culture in which we have been raised.
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I am a critic - as essential to the theatre as ants to a picnic.
