Henrik Ibsen Quotes
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.
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I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too!
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It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
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Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely.
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Execution is the chariot of genius.
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I may write about place and displacement, but what I'm really writing about is dispersion, evasion, ambivalence: not so much a subject as a move in everything I write.
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With Crosby, Stills, and Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young... we're very strong individuals, and we want our lives to be led the way we want them to.
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
