Alice Oswald Quotes
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It's those damn critics again.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.
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The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.
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In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.
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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
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I'd love to do a movie with Denzel Washington, or some action star such as Matt Damon or Mark Wahlberg would be really cool, too.
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I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.
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What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you.
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I sign on to any project because of the director: because they won't change, and you've got to feel confident that you're in good hands, in their vision.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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Film actors are, by nature, more complicated than stage actors.
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If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it.
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The older you get, the more you believe in God, whatever face he wears.
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I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.
