C. S. Lewis Quotes
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.
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And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.
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Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.
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I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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It's good to talk sometimes. Sometimes interviews are really good for you... You end up evaluating yourself more and talk about stuff that an ordinary person wouldn't necessarily keep revisiting. I used to close myself off and want to be alone, but now I'll call a friend. When you're in a relationship, they're that person.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
