Zola Budd Quotes
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.
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No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.
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I've done a lot of costume dramas and things that are set in the past, and it's great to be able to have things that you can research and material that you can look at.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.
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I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.
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Only that position can impart dignity in which we do not appear as servile tools but rather create independently within our circle.
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Fair maid, white and red, Comb me smooth, and stroke my head; And every hair a sheave shall be, And every sheave a golden tree.
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When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.
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I have never known stage-fright at any time.
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My greatest regret is that my mother died before I could help her materially.
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I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.
