Alfred Capus Quotes
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.
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I have an emotional attachment with Katihar.
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I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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We did a lot of high school productions. My first was 'Twelfth Night.' I played Viola. We did 'Much Ado About Nothing' and 'Taming of the Shrew,' and a lot of musicals: 'The Wiz,' 'Bye Bye Birdie,' 'Oliver.'
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I'm a professional geologist, an explorationist for oil. That's what I've done in my career, one that's culminated in - at least to this point - playing a part in finding the largest field in the last 40 years anywhere in the world. That's the Bakken field, which I believe will yield 24 billion barrels of oil in the decades to come, maybe more.
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If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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Technology is a nerdy field. That's why I called myself a 'geek.' It requires a lot of training and encouragement at a very young age.
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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This medal goes to show that you don't always have to have the best facilities, the best organisation, the best of everything to achieve.
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One would never have guessed that the world had such a capacity for genuine grief. The most we can do is exploit our memories of his excellence.
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The best memories are those which we have forgotten.
