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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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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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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Every political party has the right to demonstrate, but at the same time I have requested the state government to provide requisite security.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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It's amazing what a bit of soot and shaving can do for muscle definition, honestly.
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I had a whistle-stop tour of Havana in a horse and carriage and couldn't stop taking photographs of the decaying yet enchanting buildings and people.
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By being present and being true, I believe that, in my own way, I am promoting diversity.
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Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.
