E. E. Evans-Pritchard Quotes
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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I love London, I love the British people.
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I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.
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The only people that have ever fought ISIS in Syria is not the regime; it is the Free Syrian Army.
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I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a new millennium. There is a special place in my heart for that film and Melanie. She was a remarkable character - a loving person - and because of that, she was a happy person. And Scarlett, of course, was not.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!
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Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.
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To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
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I have a knife collection.
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While Hollywood has had a huge influence on the Indian industry, Bollywood and its actors, too, are garnering a lot of attention in the western film world.
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Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in.
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I like statement flats that can take you from day to night.
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I'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.
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God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
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I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.
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But it don't bother me. I never yet saw anybody hit the baseball with their face. Besides, I like to get kidded; that means they like me. When they stop kidding me, I'm in trouble.
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Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.
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I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
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As actors, we often look for the scene, big moments that say, 'This is why you have to do this role.'
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I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.
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Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea.
