Andrei Tarkovsky Quotes
It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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Seriously, 'Honey Boo Boo' is the decay of Western civilization. Just because so many people watch the show doesn't mean it's good.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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I'm a comedian, and I have my share of anxiety and depression; so do most of my friends. My humor tends to lie in the juxtaposition of extreme lightness - I'm a huge musical-theater fan - and extreme darkness. And so I really like playing with those because that's how I feel.
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I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.
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Open is something, I think, that will continue to drive a lot of innovation.
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This has denied the regime access to well over $10 billion in oil revenue - a loss of at least $30 million a day.
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I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.
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It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas.
