Anthony Quinn Quotes
The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me. I mean, who remembers 'Zorba?' Nobody remembers 'Zorba.' Nobody remembers 'Requiem for a Heavyweight.'
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I've always enjoyed poor health.
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Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
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You discover yourself through the research of your work.
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Hospitals are about healing.
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I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.
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There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.
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Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.
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There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.
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Sportspersons have to reinvent themselves every day. It helps them improve.
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I've got the Xbox 360, a Wii, and a PlayStation 3. I got everything you could think of.
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I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography. There are similar things - you have to be conscious of light and color and form - but it's a whole different medium.
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Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
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Some people, when they hear an echo, think they originated the sound.
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The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me. I mean, who remembers 'Zorba?' Nobody remembers 'Zorba.' Nobody remembers 'Requiem for a Heavyweight.'
