Georges Simenon Quotes
If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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I hope to get out before they start football next year.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I love taking chances.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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It's a place where I could do something on a weekly basis and see if I like it.
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The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
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History will treat me right.
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
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I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.
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It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.
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She raised the kids and took care of things while Dewey was gone. She had to be a wonderful woman to put up with her husband; he was gone constantly. She was independent and intelligent.
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There were three great Virginia poets in the very beginning - George Washington, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson. 'What!' you say. 'We do not even know the names of their publishers. They were not poets!' Well, how do you know? Did you ever really read them? What do you know about it? Their very names will breathe poetry forever.
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Somehow, when everything is too easy it's not necessarily the right recipe for success.
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If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.
