Hayao Miyazaki Quotes
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of intelligence, extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding.
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I'm very religious.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill.
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It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
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The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
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The heath was victorious, keeping off on all sides. The common people were charmed, During time proceeding of the men. The oak, quickly moving, Before him, tremble heaven and earth. A valiant door-keeper against an enemy, his name is considered. The blue-bells combined, And caused a consternation. In rejecting, were rejected, Others, that were perforated
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The thin-lipped armorer, Hephaestos, hobbled away, Thetis of the shining breasts Cried out in dismay At what the god had wrought To please her son, the strong Iron-hearted man-slaying Achilles Who would not live long.
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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
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That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It recreates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we're grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you'd hoped was healed.
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It's very satisfying when you see your song at the top of the charts.
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For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
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Why the hell do we make such a big deal out of things that shouldn't be a big deal?
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I've met some of the most beautiful women in the world, and I can tell you lots of them are the most unattractive people I've ever met.
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Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.
