Anohni Quotes
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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Portraying visual impairment is difficult. I can see what's going on, but I have to act like I can see nothing. And this can be quite a challenge.
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It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.
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Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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I'm thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy.
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For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.
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Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
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I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
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Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.
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I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
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I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
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My kids inspire me to be the person I am today - without them I wouldn't be who I am today.
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I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me.
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I have grown up watching Bollywood movies, and I would love to act in them.
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Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been deceived... The beauties of the Parthenon, Venuses, Nymphs, Narcissuses are so many lies. Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.
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When we train men for war, we lose some part of every man we train - even if we win the war. When we train men to be better nurturers, even men who fail the course will have won. And so will every child they ever meet. Training men to love is a nation’s best investment.
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My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.
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Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.
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The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.
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I started writing one afternoon when I was twenty, and ever since then I have written every day. At first I had to force myself. Then it became part of my identity, and I did it without thinking.
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This is not rocket science. Instead of spending all this money litigating against kids who are the people they're trying to sell things to in the first place, they have to learn how to effectively use the Internet. For the artists, my ass... I didn't ask them to protect me, and I don't want their protection.
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I don't think that I'm a lone voice. I'm not even interested in being a lone voice.
