William James Quotes
We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
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I try to do my best.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
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I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
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Our free eyes open now on new horizons and can see what yesterday, in our condition as colonial slaves, we could not observe: that 'Western Civilization' disguises behind its showy facade a picture of hyenas and jackals … A carnivorous animal that feeds on unarmed peoples.
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Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.
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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.
