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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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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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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Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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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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Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.
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Kind of the sad thing is that - it's still true - a lot of jazz people just listen to jazz, and a lot of hip-hop people just listen to hip-hop, and there's not a lot of crossover, unfortunately.
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We need to support the media by subscribing to newspapers and magazines and supporting their advertisers to stay in business. And we need to be less greedy and allow journalists to take the time to pull the story together.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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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?
