C.P. Cavafy Quotes
And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
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Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something.
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If you get a chance to be part of a Judd Apatow film, you just say yes.
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I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.
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The difficulty for the Government is there's this ideological straitjacket of the market will provide, let the market rip and everything will work out... It's back to trickle-down economics, which, it's plain to see, have not delivered.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
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Rich countries have been sending aid to poor countries for the last 60 years. And, by and large, this has failed.
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I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.
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Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read any other book, and I as rarely felt the want of any other.
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And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.
