Lily Cole Quotes
Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.
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I did not attend the services, because it seems to me, as Pythagoras says, the body is the tomb of the soul and that by being born a person has already begun to die.
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Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.
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I've had two callers ask, 'Did you ever work for someone who is poorer than you are?' Their idea is it takes a rich person to give you a job because jobs are something that are given to you, an inferior, from on high.
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I think newspapers shouldn't try to compete directly with the Web, and should do what they can do better, which may be long-form journalism and using photos and art, and making connections with large-form graphics and really enhancing the tactile experience of paper.
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Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.
