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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The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.
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I work out five days a week; I can't imagine not doing it.
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There were never as many big businesses as people were piling money into in the late 90's or early 2000's. This is really a lesson to institutional investors about how much capital the market can absorb, and it's a 10-year adjustment cycle, and we're only beginning to wake up to that.
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I thought using one device would be simpler.
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What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.
