Edward St Aubyn Quotes
Mind you, I don’t know why people get so fixated on happiness, which always eludes them, when there are so many other invigorating experiences available, like rage, jealousy, disgust, and so forth.

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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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In 1930, I was at the top of my career. I won the Most Valuable Player award.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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The media in America is not covering American AIDS very much. They're covering African AIDS as if somehow miraculously it's all stopped here. Well, it hasn't, and the one thing they're not saying about Africa is that all those people are going to die; there's no way these people can be saved - none.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
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'Batman' was a colorful and wild ride.
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In the heat of the battle, it's always different than when you go back and look at it on film.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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Follow your heart and chase your dreams until you catch them. Negative people who say you cant do something are only speaking for themselves
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Mind you, I don’t know why people get so fixated on happiness, which always eludes them, when there are so many other invigorating experiences available, like rage, jealousy, disgust, and so forth.