Aleksis Kivi Quotes
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The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.
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Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
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I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.
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I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.
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I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
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The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
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Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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Once the federal dust settles, whether there is little to spend or a lot, education must continue to be our top priority. We can afford nothing less.
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The stuffs you're good at and the stuffs you're bad at are just different parts of the same thing. Same goes for people you love and the people you don't. And the people who love you and the people who don't. The only thing that mattered was that you cared about a few people.
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Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine.
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Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.
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We try to be extremely explicit about the data we are collecting and how we are storing it, and we let the customer know the benefits to them. We let them know that if they are willing to let us target ads to them, they will get more relevant content. If we are vigilant and explicit.
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When I was a kid. I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13. Crappy rock bands, avant-garde things where we'd, like, 'wanna go against the norm, man.'
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A strong desire derives a person straight through the hardest rock.
