Antoine Lavoisier Quotes
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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I like seeing girls throw down.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
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I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom.
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
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'The Notebook' wrecks me! I cry like a 6-year-old girl at the end.
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At one point, I had lost my confidence as an actor, and working again was tough. I started stammering due to lack of confidence. It took time, but things became better.
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In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.
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I've been lucky between 'Buffy,' 'Angel,' 'Alias,' and then 'Lost.' The thing they all have in common is that they were all fearless. They were not afraid to be different and try something different. Even if you didn't know that it was going to work, just try to do something new and fresh.
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I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be.
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Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed.
