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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At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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The problem with Antigone is that she stood up to the despot Creon, but in such a way that she ended up dying. So she bought her defiance with her death. The real question I ended up asking was, "What would it mean for Antigone to have stood up to Creon and lived?" And the only way she could have lived is if she had had a serious social movement with her. If she arrived with a social movement to take down the despot, maybe it would have taken 18 days only, like in Egypt. It's really important to be able to re-situate one's rage and destitution in the context of a social movement.
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The theme of Cosmology, which is the basis of all religions, is the story of the dynamic effort of the World passing into everlasting unity, and of the static majesty of God's vision, accomplishing its purpose of completion by absorption of the World's multiplicity of effort.
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If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.
