Alban Berg Quotes
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
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I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
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I am a very selfish person.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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You can never be too rich or too thin.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes, and they all have opinions. In Hollywood there are, like, 20 snakes.
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I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.
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Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle.
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Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.
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If you love someone – deeply, in as true a way as you can – you will get hurt. People leave us and love falls apart, and when it does, it hurts. It should hurt. How can you not hurt when what you love is gone?
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Any artist who sticks around in the public awareness for more than 20 years usually has something unique to say.
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It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.
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The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from the outside looking in.
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A-ha is not me, Paul, or Magne: it is its own individual that has its own identity and characteristics. It is a result of a particular meeting point between the three of us.
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The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.
