Oliver Cromwell Quotes
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.
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We have used the presence of UNMIK, as well as other European and American agencies to establish a legal framework compatible with the European Union and that is already an advantage. We have seen the positive effects of this and our parliament will continue to go this way.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
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Unnamed director: The script is too caustic.Goldwyn: To hell with the cost. If it's a good picture, we'll make it.
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The awareness of imagery is part of living... a life which derives its power from within itself will focus on the perception... of images.
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I hope that in 50 years I can look back and say I made my most fervent efforts to provide visibility for the unseen.
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Beowulf is not a superhero. He has a talent, very much like Clint Eastwood in 'Unforgiven.' He's very good at staying calm in the right moment, but he does bad things. It's very much about having talent in a tight spot.
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We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.
