Andy Serkis Quotes
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I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
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Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
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So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.
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I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
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'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, and he's 9, so I'm like, 'No, it's not happening.'
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I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
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You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.
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When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
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Why would even I say we can't stop drilling in the Gulf? Because we have no alternatives. Whether or not we drill in the Gulf, or in Alaska, we will continue to wring the last out of anyplace else.
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I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.
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I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.
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Opera is complex for those who perform it, but also for those who listen to it. It takes more time, more patience and more spirit of sacrifice. All this is well worth it because opera offers such deep sensations that they will remain in a heart for a lifetime.
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Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.
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Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.
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We try not to pull any punches and be straightforward, and I think that's what helped us connect with everybody across the board.
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All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to hold this phase uppermost. In many cases, the usage of good authors will be found a more effective guide than any amount of precept.
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I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.
