Montgomery Clift Quotes
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
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I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.
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I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
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The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
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From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.
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I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.
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250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals.
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Modeling can be a bit brain damaging. Starting my own brand was what I needed to do. I only model if there are such good jobs that you don't want to say no to. All that dressing up makes me say, 'What do I want to wear?' and, 'What do I want to do with Topshop?' It all kind of leads into the other things.
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I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole.
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The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes.
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I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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Fredo Lampe. Am Rande Der Nacht. For me, name and title evoked those lighted windows from which you cannot tear your gaze. You are convinced that, behind them, somebody whom you have forgotten has been awaiting your return for years, or else that there is no longer anybody there. Only a lamp, left burning in the empty room.
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
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Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
