Camille Flammarion (Nicolas Camille Flammarion) Quotes
There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.
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Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
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I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.'
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I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.
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I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.
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When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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Every international meeting or championship I do, I can cope a lot better because I can say I did the 100 m. hurdles, opened up the athletics at an Olympic Games in front of a home crowd, 80,000 people.
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At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up.
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I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
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What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it too faithfully, it sounds a little stilted, because we often don't speak the way we speak in novels. Oral language is much punchier, shorter sentences.
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Every game is critical.
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True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell.
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No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
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When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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God is not in strength but in truth.
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There's a rumbling with young artists and young filmmakers that are dying to get different points of view, different stories, out there. It's all changing and happening and they're able to maybe not play their movies in theaters but get them on the internet. This is the new wave, the new world.
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There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.
