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I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.
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No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I won't join another band again.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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Mapping and visualization is a huge area of work and is of interest to many people. We're working on reinventing a new kind of 3D cartography to make it easier to tell stories with 3D maps.
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There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.
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I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'
