C.P. Cavafy Quotes
The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles.
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I write in a small office at home.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
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Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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My goal in politics from the very beginning has been, and will be, the goal of giving Ukraine a chance to finally secure a firm footing in the world as a competitive, independent and real European state.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
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I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
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I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
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I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
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If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
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Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.
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The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal, using ‘filiform protrusions through which it sucks the vital juices of its host.’ Parasite or creature in mutation on the shore, torrid / delirium: mordant mortality, systematic competition the narrator against the I, leaking gas, a lapse of memory against a promise, an inset in a book. A muscular, involuntary bulging in the breast, circling all its inner surface: mesoblast: visceral.
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The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.
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What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it too faithfully, it sounds a little stilted, because we often don't speak the way we speak in novels. Oral language is much punchier, shorter sentences.
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You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.
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I don't think there are huge divergences between my personality and what they see on TV. And I think that's why I have been gainfully employed doing this. I'll always deliver what an employer wants.
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The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles.
