Ernest Hemingway Quotes
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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As you learn who you are, you can better surround yourself with friends who make you a better person, and that sometimes only happens when you disassemble old relationships.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am.
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The giving of the Torah is a story of God seeking to provide humanity with the opportunity to make moral decisions.
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The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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This may be a bit of a broad statement, but I don't think there's anyone that I've met that I haven't created a bit of a deep relationship with. It's a really lovely thing to create a relation with people that might not anticipate that closeness. And that's kind of the light of my life, getting to be close to people.
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No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
