D. H. Lawrence Quotes
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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One of the most precious parts of acting is the work before you show up on the set, the time you spend being with your character before you bring that character to life. To me, that's the most rewarding part of it all. It feels very good to show up on a set just knowing that's with you.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
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Sometimes those big bloated superhero movies take themselves too seriously compared to the material they were based on. Am I going to listen to psychoanalysis from someone with a mask?
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If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
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It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.
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It made the most sense for us to select Sam Bowie. It was almost a no-brainer.
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Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world of theatricality emerges around the act of love.
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Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.
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Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
