Alfred Capus Quotes
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I was interested in theatre and media and came to Mumbai to get a job. I imagined that the film industry would be a white building with producers sitting in different rooms, and you could walk in and meet them, and they would interview you and select you.
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Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
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Once I've decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.
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The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
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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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You discover yourself through the research of your work.
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As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.
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Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way.
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I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.
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It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.
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I could be hit by a Sara Lee truck tomorrow. Which is not a bad way of going: 'Richard Simmons Found in a Freeway in Pound Cake and Fudge, With a Smile on His Face.' Let's face it. We don't know anything.
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I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.
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It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.
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Tzu Chang asked Confucius about jen. Confucius said, "If you can practice these five things with all the people, you can be called jen." Tzu Chang asked what they were. Confucius said, "Courtesy, generosity, honesty, persistence, and kindness. If you are courteous, you will not be disrespected; if you are generous, you will gain everything. If you are honest, people will rely on you. If you are persistent you will get results. If you are kind, you can employ people.
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When a woman begins to point out that she is honest, it's time to be wary.
