Gaston Leroux Quotes
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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To change what you get, you must change who you are.
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And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.
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I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.
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If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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People can be slave-ships in shoes.
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I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.
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It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.
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Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
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When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
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As an actor, people are always criticizing you so it just made me fall in love with myself.
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Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
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I am not really wicked. Love me, and you will see.
