Selma Lagerlof Quotes
For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Before going on 'X Factor' again, I felt like I'd tried everything else.
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Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
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There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.
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Some people would like me to be round again.
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It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
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If you want to make a movie, there may be many forces trying to pull you down, but really, a lot of it is will power. You can will it into being if you just believe that you are going to make a movie.
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As far as is possible under the ruthless tyranny the organized labor of Soviet Russia is everywhere in a state of full revolt.
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood.
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You see. I don't think any new thoughts. I think thoughts that other people have thought, and I rearrange them. But Sara, she thinks thoughts that never were before.
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In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.
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I'm off to find my world, my dreams, Carve my niche, sew my seams, Remember, as I sail my streams – I'll love you all the way.
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Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.
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Whether by theft or by artistry or by conquest, when it comes to time, Venetians are the world's greatest experts. They bested time like no one else.
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For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.
