Joyce Cary Quotes
Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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Your body thinks radium is a great thing to pack into bone - where it kills some cells outright and scrambles the DNA of others, causing problems like cancer.
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.
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I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.
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The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.
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She looked at me. Looked away. 'You think too much of me.'I smiled. 'Perhaps you think too little of yourself.'
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People love talking of their diseases, although they are the most uninteresting things in their lives.
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I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.
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I don't know what I would do if it wasn't music, 'cause I'm really a one trick pony.
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Relative to the taxi industry, Uber is a sustaining innovation; that is, it makes customers' lives better. Uber targeted mainstream markets with a better service for existing customers, and it succeeded in serving them better than the incumbents.
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When you are really in love, you become vulnerable, and insecurities come out of nowhere.
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You're stuck in front of the microphone. You can't use your hands. I like to do things.
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Success and failure are largely self-defined in terms of personal standards. The higher the self-standards, the more likely will given attainments be viewed as failures, regardless of what others might think.
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I don't consider myself a martial-arts star. I'd be offended and disappointed if I got a reputation as a martial-arts star.
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I'd like to play an alien, like from 'Starman' or 'K-PAX,' where it's human. I think I'm destined to play an alien.
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For me, it is important to pick up characters which I can relate to. Or I recall an incident in my life or tap into my innermost emotions and try to bring that reality on to the screen.
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Under Thatcher, who ruled us with an iron rod, great art was made. Amazing designers and musicians. Acid house was born. Very colourful and progressive.
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Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.
