Anna Jameson Quotes
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You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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Everyone in my country understands that Russia cannot do without Europe and that, vice versa, Europe cannot do without Russia. We depend on cooperation.
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I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.
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I'm not really a self-promoter-type person.
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Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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If humans evolved in a tiny area of Africa, they only saw plants and animals within a 100-kilometre radius for a million years. When they began to migrate, there would have been different animals and plants - and potentially a lot of allergy issues.
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Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.
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A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Francine Maisler, the casting director, saw 'Death of a Salesman' and called me in for 'Unbroken.' The casting director of 'Normal Heart' had seen 'Salesman' too. I look back on it now, and it's like one thing led to another; it was a chain reaction.
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PsychologÂy is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
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Dark City is such an underrated film.
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There is, with any great artist, a little manic-ness and insanity.
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There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands the troubles that I'm experiencing.
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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute...All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road...and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness; ahead is a black doorway; the life that bore us is a flagging horse, and a veiled stranger is waiting in the shadows to unharness us.
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Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.
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What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
