Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Quotes
It would have to stand on the basis of what somebody had done to it and that would be the basis on which it would be judged. So it's a funny art form. You gain a great deal when you have good collaborators and sometimes people just don't understand what you've done.
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
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Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.
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Although I now spend most of my time writing novels for teenagers and adults, 'readaloudability' is still a criterion I try to adhere to.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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Travelling expands the mind rarely.
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If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
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I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
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You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.
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I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London.
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
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Whenever I start a 'Potter' film, I get these dreams. The last dream I had, I was in a war and the sky was blotted with broomsticks and I couldn't find my wand. It was so intense. I always have mental, intense, war wizard dreams when I'm doing the films.
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The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
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To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.
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We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
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The map of the world is always changing; sometimes it happens overnight. All it takes is the blink of an eye, the squeeze of a trigger, a sudden gust of wind. Wake up and your life is perched on a precipice; fall asleep, it swallows you whole.
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I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy.
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It would have to stand on the basis of what somebody had done to it and that would be the basis on which it would be judged. So it's a funny art form. You gain a great deal when you have good collaborators and sometimes people just don't understand what you've done.
