Samuel Beckett Quotes
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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I want to emphasize having good, dedicated teachers in every classroom. We have the Teach for America program, which I strongly support.
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I never got along in school, really - I already knew what I wanted to do. I have never in my life got a paycheck from anywhere in the world that asked if I went to school.
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If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
