Wole Soyinka Quotes
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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One of my first favorite records was the debut Garbage album, which I heard when I was very young. Shirley Manson is a great female vocalist and performer and I admire her for that.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
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I haven't been to Berlin Fashion Week before, but it's really on the up. Being an artist as well as a model, I know that the art world is booming here, so it makes sense that fashion would feel that effect, too.
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The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
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I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.
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I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.
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If a character is supposed to be hated, my goal is to make her the most hated person on the show.
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In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
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'Mafiosa' was written by Veronica Russo. It's her first time making a film, and I'm really proud of her because this woman has a full-time job, and she decided one day, 'You know, I want to write a film, and I want to make it.'
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If all of us try to do everything, we will accomplish nothing.
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It's important that you all agree on what the parameters are and what you can accomplish - and not get pissed off or beat yourself up for what you can't accomplish.
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Sport is a very important subject at school, that's why I gave Quidditch such an important place at Hogwarts. I was very bad in sports, so I gave Harry a talent I would really loved to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?
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'Writing' is the wrong way to describe what happens to words in a movie. First, you put down words. Then you rehearse them with actors. Then you shoot the words. Then you edit them. You cut a lot of them, you fudge them, you make up new ones in voice-over. Then you cut it and throw it all away.
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I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
