Lonnie Donegan Quotes
It dawned on me, the enormity of my situation. I was, in fact, the catalyst for it all. That feeling has stayed with me ever since.
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I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our weird little creative circle, no one cares who has faster fists, but to lose an argument suggests inferior intelligence.
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Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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To spend too much time in studies is sloth.
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I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
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Remember, color is not just color, but mood, temperature and structure.
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There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.
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I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me. —Connor Kane
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It dawned on me, the enormity of my situation. I was, in fact, the catalyst for it all. That feeling has stayed with me ever since.
