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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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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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
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Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
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The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.
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Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.
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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.
