Alexander Herzen Quotes
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
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For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
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One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.
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Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.
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I have to remind myself when I'm on a job and I'm feeling a lull in attitude or confidence or whatever, I'm there for a reason. I have to constantly remind myself of these almost corny Pinterest mantras, like 'You are worthy.'
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I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.
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Written by the ancient Chinese philosopher of the same name, the 'Zhuangzi' is one long perplexing puzzle of a rambling collection of enigmatic short stories. It's a strange feeling to laugh at a joke written by someone in the 4th century B.C.
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I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
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I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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I was told that when I'm dancing, I give off the feeling of a rainy day.
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What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.
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I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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I travel light as a director. I don't have monitors on my set.
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No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.
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...hacking at the dying and decapitating those who knelt for mercy.
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Having brought diversity to the air in the way that we have with Kerry Washington and Viola Davis toplining their shows, and then shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' and 'Black-ish,' have been very important. I look forward to continuing in that vein.
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You can write a script, but that's just a starting point as a cartoonist. The heart of the process comes when you start to draw it, and you work out how to lay the page out, how best to tell the story.
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I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
