Fernando Pessoa Quotes
What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.
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I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
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At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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My philosophy is this: Do not tamper with the anatomy of a woman's body; do not camouflage it.
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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.
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I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.
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We're a nation of immigrants.
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Act because you love to act.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
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It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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It is the central bank governor, unlike other regulators or government secretaries, who has command over significant policy levers and has to occasionally disagree with the most powerful people in the country.
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
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I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There was no looking back.
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Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD's on and hit play and random things come out.
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Applause, it's very nice, of course. But when you're giving, and creating, and then there is the silence of everyone sitting there, listening, waiting, that is great.
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High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.
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Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.
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What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.
