Leo Ornstein Quotes
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
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The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times. Maybe less so here in the States, because here the society is so young.
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You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
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The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
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I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
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When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.
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If I can teach cricket overseas, why wouldn't I do so in my own country?
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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
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Odd, how different different men’s fears could be.
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…it was a cardinal rule in the East not to show one’s true feelings.
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Mes ki ne mustre s'enfertéA peine en peot aver santé:Amur est plaie dedenz cors,E si ne piert nïent defors.Ceo est un mal que lunges tient,Pur ceo que de nature vient.
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Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
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I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.
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When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.
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Civil war, now, 100 years in the future - the things that motivate human beings, they don't change emotionally.
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I distrust anything that you don't hear.
