Rudyard Kipling Quotes
All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago.
Quotes to Explore
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
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I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
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My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn't end up in her position.
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My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.
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I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
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The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I've got family and friends over here, but more than that, there's a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the U.K. which I love.
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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
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We were in love with 'Mean Streets' and 'Taxi Driver.' We had no idea why nothing remotely like that was done in Denmark.
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If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?
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Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
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The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.
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I’ve never planned any part of my career-except being an artist. And I was pushed into that corner because I thought being an artist was the only way to have a little freedom.
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The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate.
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I go on Wikipedia and alter pages of animals with fake facts that I've made up about those animals.
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Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about really true love and the blues and death and mortality, this light bulb went off in my head and I went, 'Oh, that's what they're doing. That's kind of - that's art.'
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It's definitely fun when you're able to translate your practice into the game. It's fun, and you know that your hard work paid off.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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I have more nuclear physicists living in my district than in any other district.
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A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty.
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To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence.
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All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago.
