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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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as in chemistry, physics and astronomy have kept within the bounds of mechanistic interpretation, we geneticists should rejoice, even with our noses on the grindstone (which means both eyes on the objectives), that we have at command an additional means of testing whatever original ideas pop into our heads.
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Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.
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As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.
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I grew up reading 'British Vogue' - I am so honoured and humbled to be taking up the mantle of editor.
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I think American guys tend to be a bit more forward, a bit more chatty and open than the Brits. The Brits seem to have a darker sense of humor, though I have met some Americans who have adopted bits of the British dry sense of humor as well.
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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.
