Simone de Beauvoir Quotes
Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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I think I remember being held by my mum as a baby.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
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I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
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Giving opens the way for receiving.
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I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.
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I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
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Picasso never thought of himself as avant-garde. I just find it a bad way to think of yourself.
