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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There was never a moment when I was like, 'I'm going to enter the public conversation on the importance of female nudity.'
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I was always interested in creative writing growing up. From junior high on, I was writing short stories. I also grew up watching movies. My father would take me to everything. Most weeks, I could open the paper having seen every movie listed.
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Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.
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Radical surgery is never fun.
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I am proud to be part of a community that only projects love and education and the support of one another.
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I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.
