Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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The development of methods to monitor protein dynamics in cells together with the discovery of specific and general lysosomal inhibitors have resulted in the identification of different classes of cellular proteins, long- and short-lived, and the findings of the differential effects of the inhibitors on these groups.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
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Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
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A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.
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In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.
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Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.
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Every girl likes to just rock out when they put music on in their room - I learned that personally when fans would tell us how much they loved to make up their own dances to Cheetah Girls songs.
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If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.
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This idea of 'laicite' has been weaponized, in a way, to discriminate against people, and this idea of who gets to be French is really complicated and interesting.
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Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in politics.
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The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall.
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I grew up in a big Irish family, where everyone played the traditional sports, and I remember my grandfather saying to me, 'Why are you playing that communist game? You won't get anywhere with it.'
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My experience bears out an adage about airlines: People almost always opt for convenience and price, even while complaining loudly about crowded planes and a dearth of amenities.
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Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
