Rudolf Arnheim Quotes
It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.
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Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.
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I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
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I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.
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If I can, I love staying in pajamas all day and watching movies and eating good food.
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Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.
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The Outsider's miseries are the prophet's teething pains. He retreats into his room, like a spider in a dark corner; he lives alone, wishes to avoid people.
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Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.'
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I'm not hard on myself - I brush those things off - but there are days when I'm pleased with myself, and days when I think I have elf ears.
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I'm a plus-size person, so when I tried to go into the Gap, I used to just walk out of there shaking my head because they have nothing that fits me.
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The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, 'Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.'
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And if you are strong enough, then you can grow as a conductor more and more.
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I love the story of Quasimodo, about someone who feels like they don't belong but is pure of heart and has good intentions. It's a great message for a younger audience.
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That's the challenging thing with TV; it's not the action scenes per se, and it's not the location scenes and the heavy dialog scenes, but the fact that there is just no let-up; there is no break.
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I always want to live long enough to finish the book I'm working on and see it published. But then I start another book before the previous one is in the stores, so I always have a reason to go on.
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I love reviews. Anybody who tells you they don't read reviews is a liar.
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Awful film adaptations follow novelists for the rest of their lives. An atrocious movie of 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' could have stigmatised the book, aggrieved the novel's fans, and blighted my reputation forever.
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As an artist, I'm very used to waking up and sort of not knowing what my day's going to be and not knowing where my next paycheck is going to come from.
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The first time I was ever on stage, I was naked at 17. It was very cold!
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I was a very independent teenager.
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I want the violence among young people in this country to stop - particularly gang violence.
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It is good to live in a country where all are immigrants ... the newcomer is simply the latest arrival.
