W. G. Sebald Quotes
Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.
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Glasgow has truly become my home away from home.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
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I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
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Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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When you're out grocery shopping for your family, maybe you can put a can of cat or dog food in your cart and bring it to an animal relief center.
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Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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In Arab culture, music is for celebration. You don't play music at funerals.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'
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I don't just want to support only Muslim women. I want to inspire women across the board, and I'm hoping they won't allow things to get in the way.
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The white man's victory soon became complete by fraud, violence, intimidation and murder.
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All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
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I haven't done anything that can match up to what I learnt about myself as an actress and as a person or the friends that I made.
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
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The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living
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Like our bodies and like our desires, the machines we have devised are possessed of a heart which is slowly reduced to embers.
