Andy Serkis Quotes
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I definitely had to do some soul searching, and there would be a lot of times where I would sit back and look at the Internet and say to myself, 'This is a way of being able to communicate with all my fans all over the world, other than just being in New York and only hearing the New York side of things.'
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
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The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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Hillary stood with us, as she has stood with so many over the years, and we are proud to stand with her for our country now.
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I feel like maybe I'm part of that generation that became more of a gamer than a video consumer. It's always been something I've done with my spare time. If I had three hours on a Friday night, I'm not out partying. I'm probably playing video games.
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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You want to live a life in which the things you have traded your hard-earned money for are quality items that really do uplift your life.
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It is said that Obama speaks 'professorially,' a fact that understates the quickness and agility of his mind.
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New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
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And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.
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We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.
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Sometimes people go to a yoga class and think it's not for them, but it might just not be the right studio or teacher - try a new one!
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Mimicry flows like beauty from Mexico City’s faucets, space and time are relative, and instead of the usual floral-and-stone façade, there’s dahlia and obsidian. In the course of time, what was yesterday a lake of water becomes asphalt today, and the past is a perpetual duplication that drowns the future. Yesterday’s omens come back, the same substance in a different shape. The city is a nagual that becomes a wall of skulls, an intelligent domotique structure: the Huitzilopochtli temple in a cathedral and Castile roses in cactus bouquets. Time is measured simultaneously with the Aztec, Julian, and Gregorian calendars and the cesium fountain atomic clock; the heart of Mexico City is made of mud and green rocks, and the God of Rain continues to cry over the whole country.
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Gold is money. Everything else is credit.
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Buying and selling is essentially antisocial.
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Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.
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Certain gorillas are more evolved than certain human beings I know.
