Jacob Bronowski Quotes
I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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Turkey is a safe country. Stay there.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.
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Theatres that are stuffed to the gunnels leave me feeling rather peaceful - that's when things are going right. When you're playing to 40% and trying to make the budget, it's more difficult.
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We need to band together in solidarity. There's so many portions of our community that are under-represented. You rarely see disabled actors on movie posters or black men or Latino guys.
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After a long time, I cleared my throat. “So anyway, when we get to Nevada...I think we should rethink your dad’s rule.” Alex glanced down at me and smiled – the first real smile I’d seen on his face in a long time. “You know what? It’s already been rethought and completely ditched,” he said. And he wrapped his arms around me and we stood looking up at the mountains, with the rising rays of the sun lighting them from the east.
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Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.
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I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I learned together.
