Naomi Watts Quotes
Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
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The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over.
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I'll watch a kung fu movie for kicks, no pun intended, but I'd prefer to watch other movies besides dubbed kung fu things, but they're funny.
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People relate to me, and I try to make songs that make people smile.
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In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.
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Real war was the thousands of Chinese refugees dying of cholera in the sealed stockades at Pootung, and the bloody heads of Communist soldiers mounted on pikes along the Bund. In a real war no one knew which side he was on, and there were no flags or commentators or winners. In a real war there were no enemies.
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
