Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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My favorite books are psychology, self-help, and I'm fascinated by Jung, by dream work.
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As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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I am doing characters that have so many layers. And I am very lucky that I show a lot of variety.
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Good material is good material.
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You need to learn. You need to grow up. You need to step up and know the difference between what you can do and what you can't.
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Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.
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It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.
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Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive, while timidity is not vulgar, if it be a characteristic of race or fineness of make. A fawn is not vulgar in being timid, nor a crocodile "gentle" because courageous.
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In order to change Washington, we're going to have to change the people that we send there.
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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
