Confucius Quotes
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.
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When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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Have no friends not equal to yourself.
