Luke Evans Quotes
'The Desolation of Smaug' stands alone as an action/adventure epic movie. It's visually stunning, and the 3D is incredible. Plus, it's directed by Peter Jackson, and he's extraordinary.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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I was very obsessed with my music, and I think that, as a young girl, I really wanted to get into this business, and I don't think my parents really knew how to protect me.
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It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.
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I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.
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Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.
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There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.
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I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.
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Play well with others.
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Style is the dress of thoughts.
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The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context, that "poetry makes nothing happen," that doesn't mean you shrug your shoulders and don't try to make anything happen. And Dante felt that poetry was engaged, there was a point of view; it's not my point of view, it's orthodox medieval Christianity, and I have my troubles with that. He didn't feel that you could just rule out so important a section of life - we care about these things, and it's out of caring about them that we write poetry.
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My early influences I'd say were, well, just about all the old great masters like Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, naturally Charlie Parker and quite a few others that are still around like Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Illinois Jacquet and of course my great friend Dexter Gordon.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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'The Desolation of Smaug' stands alone as an action/adventure epic movie. It's visually stunning, and the 3D is incredible. Plus, it's directed by Peter Jackson, and he's extraordinary.
