Charles Webster Hawthorne Quotes
Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.
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When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.
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From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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My rule is that if I interview someone, they should never read what I have to say about them and regret having given me the interview.
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It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.
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You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's lives, and you're making them feel something with your music. That, I think, is the biggest key: to stay grounded and focused and stay true to who you are as a person.
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You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
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For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
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At times in the past, the U.S. did not restrict the number of immigrants.
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I feel like if you flip through my Instagram, you'll kind of see the same angles and poses every time. That's the trick to having people love your Instagram selfies. It's all about your angles.
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When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
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One of the things that hold together a human society is the existence of basic politeness among its members.
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Ideas come from everywhere - they come from what you see and hear and imagine.
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Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.
