Vaclav Havel Quotes
We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.
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I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.
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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.
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Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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Direct action is the insistence, when faced with structures of unjust authority, on acting as if one is already free.
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Don't let your heart depend on thingsThat ornament life in a fleeting way!He who possesses, let him learn to lose,He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.
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Of course, the camera is a far more objective and trustworthy witness than a human being. We know that a Brueghel or Goya or James Ensor can have visions or hallucinations, but it is generally admitted that a camera can photograph only what is actually there, standing in the real world before its lens.
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We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality.
