Vaclav Havel Quotes
But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.
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Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.
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Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.
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I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
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My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
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It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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'Pay it forward' has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me huge satisfaction to be able to help writers in a measurable way.
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To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.
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I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.
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In any film there's always a historical implication.
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I've always felt that 'X-Men' was about something serious. It wasn't just fantasy.
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When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.
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My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.
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Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.
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But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.
