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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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 once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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When you hear you're going to audition for 'Dogfight,' the show about bringing ugly women to parties, you're like, 'Oh, great, thank you.' Then you read lines where people call you fat, and you call yourself fat or ugly, and it can wear on you. But that's also our dream as actors, to play someone else and give someone else a voice.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.
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Sometimes I can think of nothing more blissful than going to Berkeley and reading Byron for three years.
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Since there is no such thing as complete knowledge of a subject, one is always working to improve one's reading, writing, etc., of a subject. As Thomas Henry Huxley said, 'If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, is there anyone who knows so much as to be out of danger?' …. The problems of learning to read or write are inexhaustible.
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
