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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A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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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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Life doesn't stop with football.
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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 -
I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employed, then you're successful.
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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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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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I may be able to spot arrowheads on the desert but a refrigerator is a jungle in which I am easily lost. My wife, however, will unerringly point out that the cheese or the leftover roast is hiding right in front of my eyes. Hundreds of such experiences convince me that men and women often inhabit quite different visual worlds. These are differences which cannot be attributed to variations in visual acuity. Man and women simply have learned to use their eyes in very different ways.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
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A person is not an artist in one compartment and a human being in another.
