Raul Ruiz Quotes
I'm not against speaking publicly and having passion for something. One of the cardinal beauties of America is that we have the freedom to do so.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
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Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.
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Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.
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I write novels and other things.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
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I need therapy after writing. It's like leaking blood from a stone. It's brutally difficult but worth it.
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Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
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I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
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It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics.
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Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
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Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.
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Parading about in the latest gowns and making dull platitudes for an entire evening doesn't constitute social success in my book.
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Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
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That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.
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Truth is harder to bear than ignorance, and so ignorance is valued more- also because the status quo depends on it; but love depends on self-knowledge and self-knowledge depends on being able to bear the truth.
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Jerusalem is all about a very special relationship between the ground and the sky. This work attempts to bring the two together.
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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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I had a lot of questions, but they were more about the character than the plot. Greg and I talked a lot about the details of her inner life and the way she coped, a lot more than how I was going to look. Since the story is open to interpretation, I thought it was really important that the character be emotionally accessible, that the audience would be able to identify with her struggle.
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The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.
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The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.
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I'm not against speaking publicly and having passion for something. One of the cardinal beauties of America is that we have the freedom to do so.
