Vaclav Havel Quotes
There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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Over my career, I've had to do a lot of shows that involve stunts, and I so enjoy stunts.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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You're on your own in college, but you get sheltered a little bit more with the coaching staff and everything.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
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Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
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The idea that a lot of sons marry their mothers subconsciously, which I have done in my own life, was interesting to explore.
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If you look at me close enough, there's a small resemblance to a chicken nugget. I don't know if it's my skin texture or my hair, but the resemblance is definitely there.
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I usually end up making a huge mess every morning when I get dressed. My outfit affects my whole day. I'm always running late, and I'm always trying to make sure I feel really good in what I'm wearing, because if you're wearing something you're not comfortable in, it ruins your day.
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I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.
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You do a film for a short time period - you put it all out there and move on.
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There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.
