Ernest Hemingway Quotes
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.
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Laws must be clear, precise, and uniform for all citizens.
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If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.
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If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.
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It dawned on me, the enormity of my situation. I was, in fact, the catalyst for it all. That feeling has stayed with me ever since.
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I firmly believe that in every situation, no matter how difficult, God extends grace greater than the hardship, and strength and peace of mind that can lead us to a place higher than where we were before.
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There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck.
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I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.
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As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.
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I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.
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I think one of the few times I've been involved with real-life characters was the story of Marie Bonaparte. I think it's really difficult to become someone that really existed.
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From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.
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"Are we alone in the universe?" This is a question which goes back to the dawn of history, but for most of human history it has been in the province of religion and philosophy. Fifty or something years ago, however, it became part of science.
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Now I'm in the process of fine turning.
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You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
