Marcel Proust Quotes
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.
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If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
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People have a good time with all the catch phrases.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.
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I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.
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I was born in Northern California and lived there until I was about eight years old. Then my parents moved me up to Seattle. I lived there from ages eight to 16. When I was a California kid, I remember running around in my bathing suit and barefoot all the time and getting a suntan.
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I have not met a Filipino actor who didn't dream of working on an 'FPJ' remake.
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We've got a lot more Polynesians playing rugby in Australia and now these young guys have come through our development system and are making their way into the national team.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.
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Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
