Carl Honore Quotes
We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?
Quotes to Explore
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.
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No one ever comes up to me and says, 'Hey man, I loved your work in 'Road Trip.' They say, 'Are you that guy?' Like, they have no idea. 'Were you in 'American Pie 2?'
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I don't know any real jiu-jitsu or judo or anything. I do movie kung fu. With that, you can fake a punch, but you can't really fake a judo throw. You can get help from the person who you're throwing because they can kind of launch themselves.
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I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.
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The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.
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We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?
