Norbert Elias Quotes
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.
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I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.
Nastassja Kinski -
It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?
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There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Stripesy... the list goes on.
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I actually worked for a small company in Ohio that sort of farmed out work from Disney and Dreamworks, so I really only ever worked in two studios.
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In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
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Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?
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I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible.
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Once we become a multiplanet species, our chances to live long and prosper will take a huge leap skyward.
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Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?
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True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.
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Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my own terms in response to being out in the world - I started to really enjoy it... I realized that everything else for me was hell.
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If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.
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A person is not an artist in one compartment and a human being in another.
