Iris Murdoch Quotes
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
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I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!
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I guess I crave stability.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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It's no use crying over spilt summits.
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I think humans are fascinating in general. We're so weird. We do so many quirky things, and we don't even know it. There's just so many layers upon layers of nuances in everything we do, and the most fun part as an actor is trying to get into all those nuances, whether they're conscious or unconscious.
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While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.
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Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
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The bicycle kick is not easy to do.
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Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.
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If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.
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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
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'We must never forget that if Christ had been so inclined, he would not have come and there will be no Christmas to celebrate.'
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We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
