Clarence John Laughlin Quotes
Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting and thinking alike, of the huge machine which society is becoming, is to restore life to all things through the saving and beneficent power of the human imagination.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.
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Unlike Milan, Italy's banking capital, or Rome, its religious center, Florence was the place where the rich went to buy goods that would showcase how wealthy they were.
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A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
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The writer works in a lonely way.
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'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.
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In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don't always apply.
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Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.
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A stronger E.U. of defence makes NATO stronger.
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I plan to coach at University of Louisville for as long as I can maintain the passion I have for the game of basketball. I don't want to coach anywhere else. I don't believe in anything else as much as I believe in this university and this state. I want to coach as long as they will have me.
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Faith is acting in the face of contrary evidence. The senses declare, "It cannot be," but Faith shouts above the turmoil, "It is!"
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There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.
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If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.
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Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
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Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting and thinking alike, of the huge machine which society is becoming, is to restore life to all things through the saving and beneficent power of the human imagination.
