Eric Ambler Quotes
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look up the sky, it gives me a nice feeling, like looking at an old friend.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.
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I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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I got a manager, and I thought, since I was going out on auditions, I should do this for a living. Then there was this moment on set when I realized I was having a lot of fun, and I really wanted to do this forever.
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If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.
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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 slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.
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I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
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I will be very involved in Ukraine.
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It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.
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I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.
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Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
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To abandon their isolation and agree, as the Albanians have done, to join the consulting governing bodies of the province which work with the international administration.
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When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We are divided. The result is a divide and conquer scenario, in which we negotiate as adversaries, first with government and then with one another about our relative worth, while the conqueror observes and continues to rule.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
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Never tell a lie when you can bullshit your way through it.
