Laurence Olivier Quotes
Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real. I mean, I would probably shock Lee Strasberg.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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I have a lot of ideas come to me when I'm working that are different from the plan, and sometimes that can be a little overwhelming and difficult for directors.
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I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
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I'm the youngest of five boys.
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I feel I have a divine mandate to go and tell the people of this world that it is possible to be strong in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are in training for the tribulation, but more than sixty percent of the Body of Christ across the world has already entered into the tribulation. There is no way to escape it. We are next.
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Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is - and not so much a matter of being real. I mean, I would probably shock Lee Strasberg.
