Anton Walbrook Quotes
I adore the past. So much more restful than the present. So much more dependable than the future.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.'
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I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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If I played characters who were like me, I'd be super bored.
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It's nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected.
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Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?
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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
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Without discipline, there is no Marine Corps.
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What the divine author of the Mahabharata said of his great creation is equally true of Hinduism. Whatever of substance is contained in any other religion is always to be found in Hindusim, and what is not contained in it is insubstantial or unnecessary.
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Robbery is common.
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In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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As long as the reader is enjoying a story and the writing, it doesn't concern me if people don't understand why it's running backward or if it's running backward. I think disorientating a reader a bit can be really nice. Making them work and bringing their own past to play in a novel.
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I adore the past. So much more restful than the present. So much more dependable than the future.
