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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'
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When I went to City of Bath College, I studied the music business.
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The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.
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There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.
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Being a single woman is like going off to war.
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Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
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Mysteries do not as yet amount to miracles.
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I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.
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Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few find it difficult to admit the impossibility.
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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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There are no fights in Ireland, people just get so drunk they go, 'GODDAMN, YA SONOFABITCH!' and pass out. And there's no Alcoholics Anonymous there, because if there's a meeting, it's always at the bar,
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Everybody knows the mother-daughter relationship is one of the most complex there is.
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Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language.
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I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.
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I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play.
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I have so many favourite science fiction films. I would say 'Alien' and 'Aliens' are two of my favourite sci-fi films. Also 'Children of Men' would be one of my favourite science fiction films. I love the original 'Solaris' and the remake. And even though it wasn't a film, the series 'Battlestar Galactica' was one of my favourite TV shows.
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The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.
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The majority is wicked.
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I actually think that I'm a genius; not to toot my own horn or anything, but I think I'm a musical genius.
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I think it's better not to mix professional life and personal life - although it is hard.
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You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge, is still kept secret. But, believe me, my friend, it is there.
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Music can be the bridge to understanding, but people have to get some knowledge.
