Joyce Cary Quotes
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
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I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
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I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.
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This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organising a mass massacre of mankind.
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Every instrument requires to be made by experience.
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I do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don't think I'll ever leave London.
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I would be nothing if it wasn't for the town where I grew up and the people who gave me my inspiration.
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The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
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The truth is that the more responsible the media outlet, the more responsive they are to constructive criticism.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
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No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.
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A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
