Cary Elwes (Ivan Simon Cary Elwes) Quotes
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I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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There's layers to our stuff: Our top layer is like candy-coated pop, because we want to party and have a nice time, but we also have a lot of different human experiences and other levels present in the Die Antwoord experience.
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The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
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Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding why our governments are making the decisions that they are?
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I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.
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As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.
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The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.
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I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.
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Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.
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Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
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When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.
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The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.
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I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.
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There's an incomparable rush that comes from finding dinosaur bones. You know you're the first person to lay hands on a critter that lived 80 or 90 million years ago.
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I do think that all politicians today have to be more attentive to people wanting to be heard, wanting to have more control over their lives.
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I knew all these people had the same goals I did, but the one that worked the hardest would come out on top. That's what drove me all the time. But I had fun. I did better every day, and that's what made it fun.
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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.
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An entirely new system of thought is needed, a system based on attention to people, and not primarily attention to goods. . . .
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.
