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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Of course, you're always going to be biased but Submarine was amazing and I'm not surprised that people liked it.
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Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.
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Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.
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There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.
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We were never a band that did 96 takes of the same thing. I had heard of groups that were into that kind of excess around that time. They'd work on the same track for three or four days and then work on it some more, but that's clearly not the way to record an album. If the track isn't happening and it creates some sort of psychological barrier, even after an hour or two, then you should stop and do something else. Go out: go to the pub, or a restaurant or something. Or play another song.
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There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.
