Ada Leverson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
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Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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I do not live in the world of sobriety.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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I think I can change the game.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
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For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.
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All of my films have been very dialogue-heavy, and that's great. It always makes it more of a challenge to market in other countries.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.
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I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?
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Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy.
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Everything comes to the man who won't wait.
