Emile Verhaeren Quotes
I love things that are absurd, useless, impossible, frantic, excessive, and intense, because they provoke me, because I feel them like thorns in my flesh.
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Reducing debt through budgetary consolidation is essential to restoring Europe's financial health.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
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My sister and I had jointly heard the narration of 'Revolver Rani' in Tigmanshu Dhulia's office. After hearing the narration, my sister was very scared and adamant that I should not do this film, as my character was twisted, neurotic, violent and abusive.
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I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
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I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely smashing for three solid years, but he never guessed. Then he had one on me but nothing came of it. I'm not going to regret that; it could have ruined my life.
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It was never a plan to be an actor.
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If I walked into a restaurant, the other diners would look around and say, 'I hope you're not cooking.'
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I can do a good John Wayne.
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There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true.
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I don't think there is such a thing as a German movie star. There are respected actors, but we are not publicized like TV people.
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Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!
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I have a small studio set up in my house in Athens. I'll wake up, have a nice breakfast, and I won't surface until dinnertime. I'm very domesticated in that way.
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I've had this happen before. I'll give it one day and be ready to go (today).
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I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.
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Basically we are all the same human beings with the same potential to be a good human being or a bad human being. The important thing is to realize the positive side and try to increase that; realize the negative side and try to reduce. That's the way.
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I love India.
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I'm not going to stop going to the supermarket just because the paparazzi follow me. I love to cook and a cook needs her ingredients!
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Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.
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You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.
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I love things that are absurd, useless, impossible, frantic, excessive, and intense, because they provoke me, because I feel them like thorns in my flesh.
