Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes
Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious, or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
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With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.
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I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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If you have life's experiences with you, nothing can stop you from being a competent actor.
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Popular culture isn't a freeze-frame; it is images zapping by in rapid-fire succession, which is why collage is such an effective way of representing contemporary life. The blur between images creates a kind of motion in the mind.
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The best philanthropy is anonymous charity. When you’re doing it for the right reasons, and not to tell everyone how nice you are. That’s self-aggrandizement. That’s also OK: if you want credit, that’s OK. But the higher giving is anonymous giving.
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A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.
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Obviously, we suppress things, emotions, things during the day - thoughts that we obviously haven't thought through enough, and in that state of sleep when our subconscious, or mind just sort of randomly fires off different surreal story structures, and when we wake up we should pay attention to these things.
