Georges Rodenbach Quotes
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
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Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.
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Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.
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The greatness of a musician is measured by the degree of fanaticism he brings to his playing.
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We are not saints, gods, spiritual human beings that we can sit and decide whether a film will do well or not. It is not in our hands.
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We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
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People act like Nirvana invented grunge; they just took it and personified it.
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Yeah I'm in love with the girl in the four-wheel driveChrome steel bumpers and red step sideShe has a large time in her large machineMan I wonder how she gets up in that thingIt casts a big shadow sittin' in the sunShe's got it revved up rockin' ready to runAnd someday soon I'm gonna climb right upAnd take a little ride in her big ol' truck.
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But make no mistake. My counterpart is capable of a great deal of ruthlessness in pursuit of a just cause. He believes he has right on his side. And men who think they have right on their side are always the most dangerous sort.
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The intersection of being female and a showrunner carries difficult challenges.
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Celebrity is very weird.
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Growing up, I never felt like the pretty girl.
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I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything.
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Nobody disputes that cheap natural gas would be a good thing for the economy. The question is, is this a sustainable new development that can be counted on for decades to come, or simply a 'bubble' brought on by a land grab and drilling frenzy?
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He reached down and tapped Suttree's knee with his forefinger. You, my good buddy, are a fourteen carat gold plated son of a bitch. That's what your problem is. And that being your problem, there's not a whole lot of people in sympathy with you. Or with your problem.
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Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.
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Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.
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Sure, I went through my 'J'accuse' phase. I was so angry for so long, I could hardly have a conversation without getting into an argument. And it was only when I felt I could finally distance myself from my past that I began to write about what happened - not just to me, but to lots of young people. I think my story is a cautionary tale.
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It is distance that creates nostalgia.
