Rumi Quotes
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.
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There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.
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The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.
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I want to make people laugh.
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
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I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.
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I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.
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Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.
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I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
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I could put you in a condo, all the way up in Toronto
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I am a great believer rather than the popular scientific way of dealing with things that 'Nothing exists unless you can prove it'. I am pretty much the other way that pretty much anything can exist unless you can disprove it.
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My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great aunt was a woman called Greer Garson.
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In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
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As sure as a gun.
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Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.
