Lily Cole Quotes
I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
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Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
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I think artists are aware that talking gives a songwriter so much material. If they just tell us what's happening, it's so much easier for us to write a song that's specific to them.
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Bitcoin's value is the same: It will remain as long as it is the most efficient mechanism for transferring ownership.
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It was the poor part of town-small houses and courts with mailboxes full of spiders, mailboxes hanging by one nail, old women inside rolling cigarettes and chewing tobacco and humming to their canaries and watching you, an idiot lost in the rain.
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Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered.
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I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting.
