Charles Beaumont Quotes
A cold wind raced across the surrounding fields of wild grass, turning the land into a heaving dark-green ocean. It sighed up through the branches of cherry trees and rattled the thick leaves. Sometimes a cherry would break loose, tumble in the gale, fall and split, filling the night with its fragrance. The air was iron and loam and growth. He walked and tried to pull these things into his lungs, the silence and coolness of them. But someone was screaming, deep inside him. Someone was talking.
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My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.
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The art of life is to show your hand.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.
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It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job.
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
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Respect the burden.
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Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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'Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.
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You know who's messianic? Netanyahu, because he talks that way. And that's a very risky position.
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Anyone who is afraid to lose isn't ready to win.
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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
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I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother.
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There is a tendency to underestimate the power of what we can do without words. Sometimes you can make a scene even more powerful and precise without dialogue.
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Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that probably means it's really out there in the real world.
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I like every girl. Every kind of girl that there is, I like.
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I love to lose myself in other men's minds.
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I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.
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He who helped you when you were in trouble ought not afterwards be despised by you.
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All you have to do is say Fuck Off when the vagina doctor calls.
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Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.
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A cold wind raced across the surrounding fields of wild grass, turning the land into a heaving dark-green ocean. It sighed up through the branches of cherry trees and rattled the thick leaves. Sometimes a cherry would break loose, tumble in the gale, fall and split, filling the night with its fragrance. The air was iron and loam and growth. He walked and tried to pull these things into his lungs, the silence and coolness of them. But someone was screaming, deep inside him. Someone was talking.
