Arthur Lismer Quotes
Turning points in my life... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another... the companionship of a great individual, a wonder with canoe, axe and fish line.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures.
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When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.
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Having our fundamental assumptions about life challenged is never a comfortable thing.
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Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good.
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The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.
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It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.
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Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn't be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.
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The increase in brain size and refinement of stone artifacts point to an unbroken advance in mental ability over the last two or three million years. ...No organ in the history of life has grown faster.
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I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell:'
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I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
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For those who want ‘to change life', ‘to reinvent love,’ God is nothing but a hindrance.
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What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.
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Life is so fragile, so brief. And we seemingly work so hard at trying to ignore that.
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I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.
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I try to pull my inspirations from everyday life. If I came across a situation that is like, 'Oh, that's going to be scary, that's going to be frightening,' that's when I get inspired, and I put that into my films.
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When I was 14, I thought I was the coolest kid in school because I told everyone the jokes in FHM.
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I love to drive, especially on tracks, where I go a lot faster.
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There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.
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In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.
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Turning points in my life... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another... the companionship of a great individual, a wonder with canoe, axe and fish line.
