Austen Chamberlain Quotes
I wonder how many members can realise what the remilitarisation of the Rhineland means not merely to the excited politicians in Paris, but to the French peasant in his hovel, to the mother who feels that once again the...peril has come near and that once again her children will be mowed down by the scythe of war.
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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Since I played a warrior in 'Magadheera,' my character sported shoulder-length hair and a thick beard.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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I am very, very strict with my workout regimen; not so much with my food, because I'm always working out, so I can allow myself to be a bit more naughty!
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Why should anyone be interested in my life? It's the prurience I find so extraordinary. Why, why, oh why should my private life be of any interest to the public? The only people who should be interested are my friends.
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I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
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I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
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I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.
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If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.
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Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his details give the impression of contrived effect.
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I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.
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I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.
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For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.
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I cannot say where you are. Unreachableby prayer, even if poems are prayers. Unseeablein the air, even if souls are stars.
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I am an example of a person who got zeroed into a philosophy early.
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No, there isn't a particular type of genre that I'm drawn to. I'm more drawn to the possibility of creating different characters, or being able to go from one genre to the other and to show that I could do it, that I could be good at it.
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I come from the theater. Nothing is as difficult as working eight shows a week. Period. End of story.
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People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.
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I wonder how many members can realise what the remilitarisation of the Rhineland means not merely to the excited politicians in Paris, but to the French peasant in his hovel, to the mother who feels that once again the...peril has come near and that once again her children will be mowed down by the scythe of war.
