Thomas Carlyle Quotes
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine... and curry... and cheeses.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
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I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
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Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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The only violence was when these so-called 'freedom fighters' terrorized the poor Africans in the villages... They were told what to do and who to support.
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The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.
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Every lover is a soldier.
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Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.
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Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.
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But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.
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I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.
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I've always been a fan of Korean cinema but never really pursued it, as I wanted to pave my way here in the States. I figured, once I established myself here, Korea might take notice. And it did.
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You know you have that zealousness of the young person that feels like you can go out and do it all. You know you save the world, save your gente, save women and before you know it if you try to do that you will burn out very quickly. My feeling is that I always think that and my advice to young people regardless of what times in these decades we've been living in there's always work to be done. The point is what can you do personally that you can live with so that you can get up the next morning and have the strength to start it all over again.
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I absolutely don't want to suggest that women are unreliable because we're mothers - on the contrary. But the question of who brings up the kids has a material effect on all women's careers.
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All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
