Paracelsus Quotes
From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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I don't think I tell stories of tragedy. I think I tell stories of love. Even though you're full of tears, I hope that you leave the theatre with your heart feeling like it's going to explode out of your chest. And yes, you've been through the tragedy, but it's ultimately hope that I think you're left with.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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I've never been a really big fan of theatre. I don't know why. It's so much for effort. It's much more difficult for me than stage acting just because of the pressure that's piled on you and you have to learn the entire performance by heart.
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I didn't get fat even when I was pregnant. You have to work very hard at staying slim, and it's a bore. But it's worth it.
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I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.
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I've been smart enough to have lived my life stupidly.
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Make an effort to do the things that you enjoy instead of being lazy about it. Life is worth the hassle.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
