Elspeth Huxley Quotes
English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.
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Seasonality in winter doesn't have to mean sleep-inducing, stew-like, starchy casseroles.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not 'yours,' not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
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The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.
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I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.
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Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
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I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.
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I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.
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I'm proud of the fact that I was able to overcome long odds.
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Buckwheat, like Marmite and durian, is a seriously divisive foodstuff, so it needs a seriously capable defence team if it's ever going to make it on to most people's dinner tables.
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Everyone who watches me play knows I am an honest player.
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I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.
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I've seen Bruno Mars before, he's amazing.
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Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.
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The history of skiing is important to me.
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And out of the blue, I got a call from an editor friend at Knopf and she said that they were interested in putting out an update for their vintage paperback line. So I was more than thrilled and it was suggested that perhaps I could do a 1,000 word new introduction covering what's happened with the whole Warhol thing since 1990 when the first edition hardcover came out and, uh, that was about August 1st and I sat down at my computer here in East Hampton and on on August 30th I'd written almost 10,000 words!
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There are players there that you wished you could have on your squad. . . . I had some tough conversations today.
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I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
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I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.
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I think it's a real danger, as an actor, when you try to make some statement through your career about what the business should be doing or ultimately what your image should be or how you want to be perceived. I look at every project that comes along and say, "Is this something I can sink my teeth into and can do a good job on?" That's really how I choose roles.
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English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.
