Orlando Aloysius Battista Quotes
Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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What people see is just your career graph and the films you do. But that's a very small aspect of my life.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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My all-time favorite skin cream is from Poland. Its called Eva Natura with Polish herbs, including rosemary. It smells wonderful and is soothing and comforting.
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Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.
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Sometimes, of course, there's no quick way to make it through immigration: Different airports have gluts of incoming flights at different times of day, and short of rearranging your flight schedule to ensure you'll land at a low-traffic hour, there's nothing you can do.
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There was a little less pressure to be fit on 'The Avengers' than 'Captain America.' I had just finished 'Captain America,' so I was already built. Plus, 'Captain America' has that one scene dramatic scene where my transformation is revealed. 'The Avengers' has not one shirtless scene.
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Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.
