Anthony Hemingway Quotes
With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films.
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I've had such an odd career.
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I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.
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The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.
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You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.
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The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
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I ran track for my school. I played football, but I didn't play for my high school; I played for a little league team.
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It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.
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One can never have too large a party.
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Wer keine Blume mehr liebt, dem ist alle Liebe und Gottesfurcht verloren.
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Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
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The southern Chinese are a mixture of the Han, or northern Chinese, and the local tribes, some of which allowed women a great deal of freedom - much to the horror of the Chinese who were good Confucians. As a result, the folklore from southern China has strong females; and I found that the folktales mirrored my own experience.
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Sometimes I am a different character in different languages. I have different enjoyment from them. Sometimes different answers come out of me. Like, I didnt even know that about me. I get to know myself through different languages, actually.
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With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.
