William Golding Quotes
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my acting career. Martial arts reminded me of dancing. It has helped me learn fight sequences quicker.
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It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
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In the Middle East you get that sense that leadership decisions and the local powers that are working around us all the time have a direct effect on the quality of life... and that quality of life is obviously very different between a kid who is growing up in a refugee camp and somebody who is living in Tel Aviv.
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One of the side-effects of having your work appear in a public forum such as this is that people often email me asking for advice on how to break into writing, presumably figuring that if a drooling gum-brain like me can scrape a living witlessly pawing at a keyboard, there's hope for anyone.
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'We should let love be uppermost in our hearts because all our doings without love are nothing.'
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The experience of having a child does crack you wide open. I felt like I suddenly had to rebuild the skin that I'd grown over the years before having a child. Perhaps that might be quite interesting in terms of acting.
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If you want to get a child to love you, then you should just go hide in the closet for three or for hours. They get down on their knees and pray for you to return. That child will turn you into God. Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.
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Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.
