Esme Raji Codell Quotes

I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.

Esme Raji Codell

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• When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

  

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• Sharing is the essence of social media.

  

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• I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.

  

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• I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.

  

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• It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.

  

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• I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.

  

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• I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.

  

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• I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

  

  Nancy Reagan
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• Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
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• As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.

  

  Abby Wambach
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• What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
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• This is the moment when I should also admit that when the Internet first arrived I kept telling people it was a fad.

  

  Gail Collins
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• I'm not a super-actorly actor, my-body-is-an-instrument type of person, but I do want to do fun, exciting, interesting things. I have a 2001 PT Cruiser. I saved my money so I can take my time and choose something that I think is great, and that's what I'm waiting for.

  

  Paget Brewster
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• I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.

  

  Dan Brown
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• I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

  

  Eddie Cahill
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• When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.

  

  Gagan Narang
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• What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

  

  Gary Oldman
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• The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'

  

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• Your calves, biceps and neck should always be the same size in inches. Mine are 16 inches - anything bigger or smaller and you know you're going wrong! Most men ignore working out the legs and glutes, not realising that they are the pillars of our core.

  

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• But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination.

  

  Albert Camus
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• Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film - you know you can go on for ever if you want. You can see the result immediately, and find out if your original idea is worth going on with or not, whether it can be corrected, whether it can be improved.

  

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• Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.

  

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• I suppose an active imagination can be a form of madness. Or it can be the thing that keeps you from going mad.

  

  Esme Raji Codell
  • Imagination
  • Madness