Henrik Ibsen Quotes
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority.
Henrik Ibsen
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People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.
Samuel L. Jackson
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
Eddie Marsan
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I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'
Rachel McAdams
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Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball, and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
Garth Brooks
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I believe accurately remembering - and honoring - our whole past is the first step in governing in a way that effectively represents the whole America.
Tammy Duckworth
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I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.
Mallory Jansen
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Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life. There's something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing that's always been comforting to me.
Adrian Tomine
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If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.
Bette Midler
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What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from the photograph about how it was made, really.
Garry Winogrand
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I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea.
Barack Obama
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The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself only in addressing vital tasks with the means of its times. A knowledge of the times, its tasks, and its means is the necessary precondition of work in the building art.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
Oscar Wilde
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...Their problem was not that they failed to believe in God; it was that they did not know God; it was that they did not know God. It took only one generation for that knowledge to be lost. But it’s also true that what can be lost in one generation can also be restored in one generation
Colin S. Smith
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The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.
Napoleon Hill
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But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.' Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.
Nancy Mitford
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Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority.
Henrik Ibsen
