H. Rider Haggard Quotes
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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For me, 'Atmosphere' was more about looking inwards and reaching out to people close to me. To emphasize the fact that I'm singing on the first single, this album is really more about me and songs that I've written instead of collaborating with people.
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I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.
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I like heels and make-up.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.
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We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
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To increase the zone of peace is to build the inner core of a stable international zone.
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Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
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The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.
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By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.
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I don't really know what a cyclotron is but I am certainly very happy Canada has one!
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Our triumph over sorrow is not that we can avoid it but that we can endure it. And therein lies our hope; that in spirit we might become bigger than the problems we face.
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[On Einstein:] You cannot analyze him, otherwise you will misjudge him. Such a genius should be irreproachable in every respect. But no, nature doesn't behave like this. Where she gives extravagantly, she takes away extravagantly.
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Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.
