Apostolos Doxiadis Quotes
The things that cannot be talked about logically are the only ones which are truly important.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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It's not an easy task to match Charan. He is really a good dancer, and he comes straight to the sets without rehearsals.
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.
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I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.
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I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.
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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
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A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.
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I wasn't really qualified to be on Saturday Night Live - I'm not like an impressionist or anything.
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As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'
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I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.
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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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When you get lucky, as I did getting to work on a series of amazing films, one of the drawbacks career-wise is that the image of you at 10 or 12 or whatever is burned into people's minds for a long time.
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As I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into a dreamy Socratic-purgatorial journey, the museum literally fell away. I was suspended in some weird nonspace.
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I must admit, the only reason I joined an amateur dramatic society is because I couldn't get to kiss any girls - I was chasing girls all the time - and so I thought if I join it, there might be some love scenes. And there was a particular girl and I thought I might get to kiss Amy. I never did get to kiss Amy but I did get to kiss Elizabeth Taylor, so it was all right, a lot later.
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Lunchtime and recess, that was a big part for me growing up. I think it's important for kids to have that.
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Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds of boundless void. Whence no farther. Best worse no farther. Nohow less. Nohow worse. Nohow naught. Nohow on.
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Skaters are infamously superstitious.
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The things that cannot be talked about logically are the only ones which are truly important.
