William Blake Quotes
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
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I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
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I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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To demonstrate this simultaneity is by no means trivial, because it may for example happen that the product nucleus always forms in an activated state at first.
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For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
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I'm a '90s baby.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
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I have no literary fears.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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As actors, we don't shy away from saying, 'I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to meet girls.' Directors cannot say the same thing.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
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The real reason for health claims is well established: health claims sell food products.
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Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.
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Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.
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The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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Thou art a man God is no more Thy own humanity Learn to adore.
