Cary Elwes (Ivan Simon Cary Elwes) Quotes
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
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I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.
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If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
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I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.
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If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.
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I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
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The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
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Beauty is a whore.
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Each for himself is still the ruleWe learn it when we go to school-The devil take the hindmost, O!
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I've been doing comedy since I was two. You know, kids who make other kids laugh. The sickness had set in! I could make my friends' parents laugh; I had a sense of what was silly and funny.
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I'm always pretty nervous when I do anything! I walk very slowly. I'm very careful.
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
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Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.
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I'm not as successful as Pixar or Dreamworks, and that is disappointing to me, because I think my films are as valid as a Pixar film. I think there's an audience for my films. I know there's a market for someone like Quentin Tarantino, who basically does adult cartoons in live action.
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Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.
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My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
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There are two aspects to being competitive; one is to do with sports, and the other is about technical skills. Being able to recollect the moves and apply them when necessary is a critical aspect.
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To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
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The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and much rather would we choose that our reader should clearly understand what our principal actors think than what they do.
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We are men of action. Lies do not become us.
