P. D. James Quotes
If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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Maybe General Groves was right. Maybe we should just banish thinking forever.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.
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I just sing over hip-hop beats, you know. That's what I've been doing. That's what I started in '09 in my dorm room.
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Radio was my lifeline as a kid growing up in Winnipeg in the 1950s. It connected me with the wider world outside our little prairie city.
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If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.
