Carsten Jensen Quotes
With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.
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Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them.
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There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
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I loved Allan Dwan. He was a tough old guy.
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Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
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Honestly, I don't buy papers or the weeklies. I think when something messy does happen, you just need your closest friends and family all around you, and it's nothing to do with anyone else.
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I like to control my own personal life.
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The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.
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Hire the best people, and trust what you hired them to do.
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Some people call me scrappy - and that's because I am.
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I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.
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We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it automatically. We invent memories. Without thinking. If we tell ourselves something happened often enough we start to believe it, and then we can actually remember it.
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No one has a right to comment on anyone's life or the choices I do or don't make.
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Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.
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Believe that there is a purpose in your pain.
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With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.
