F. E. Higgins Quotes
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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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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.
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There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
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We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
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The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
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Life is a green madness just now, trying to squeeze the last bit of warmth from the season.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.
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I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.
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What is life if not a gamble?
