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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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 -
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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When I left I got an award for being the latest person in the history of the school. If you got three late marks for being over fifteen minutes late you’d get an after school detention. I got something like 257 marks. And I only lived about ten minutes away.
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God made certain people to play football. He was one of them.
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Most of the time I do feel like I need someone else when I'm alone. But I can still get by with just my own company and that makes me a stronger person.
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Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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Artists who believe they control everything control what they know. Artists who allow outside forces to intervene are like canoes going down rapids. The rocks are there. If you fight them, you fly off the bow. If you allow the current to take you, you can pass through swimmingly. It is a rare gift at every bend.
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A person is not an artist in one compartment and a human being in another.
