Algernon Blackwood Quotes
A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
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Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.
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In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.
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In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.
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Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.
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A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.
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Dust had dimmed only a fraction, not enough. Decay had brushed with its rotten fingers not nearly all it should. It was an enchanted sweet, stuck in the throat of time.
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A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred.
