D. H. Lawrence Quotes
The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of ultimate marriage--and there isn't anything else.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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It was my mother who got me involved in gymnastics, sending me to classes when I was six just to stop me doing back flips on the couch and destroying the furniture.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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I know people who prepare their roles in such a way that they technically look ahead and memorize their gestures, and then they stick to it. Those that are technically proficient enough can make it seem natural, but they do that and don't really take in what other people are doing.
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Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.
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Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.
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I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
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The role of the speaker of the House is to deliver enough votes by understanding and accommodating the individual bottom lines of enough members to pass the bill.
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I feel like what we've done in 'Homecoming' is really scratching the surface with Spider-Man.
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If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe.
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One thing I like about Twitter is that you can hear it from the horse's mouth.
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The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of ultimate marriage--and there isn't anything else.
