Paul Gauguin Quotes
The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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I very much admire Uri Ariel. I think he's a man of principles, and effective, and I love him.
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It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
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From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.
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When I was playing Gandalf, I didn't think, 'Oh my dear, I'm playing a 7,000 year old wizard,' because I've never met one, and I don't know what they're like.
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Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.
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Coming up, the music of my era was very conscious. I grew up on Public Enemy, and it was popular culture to be aware. People were wearing Malcolm X T-shirts and Malcolm X hats. It was a very cool thing to know who Malcolm X was. It was all in the lyrics. It was trendy to be conscious and aware.
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I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.
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Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.
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Companies figured out that the easiest way to make money was to reissue records that the accounting department had paid for years ago and already made a profit.
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When you do a show eight times a week, you are constantly living in the same world for that whole time, but when you have such drastically different characters and circumstances, you have to find a way to take a moment to reconnect.
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I think tripe is maligned. It's wonderful stuff, but everyone goes 'urgh.' You have to wash and then cook it, very gently braise it, for eight hours. It uplifts you but steadies you at the same time.
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The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.
