Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.
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I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.
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In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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I love characters who can rile an audience so much - it means you've done your job well.
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I'm very impressed by the imagery in the 'Apologia', which is a kind of sustained poem. It's not just a piece of apologetics of the sort you find in Jesuit literature: 'Why I came over', and so on. It's a tremendously rewarding book but requires perseverance on the part of the reader.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
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The difference between winning this game and losing it is, you might say, the difference between facing big games now and desperation games.
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Literature is the thought of thinking souls.
