Daisaku Ikeda Quotes
If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is found the heart of a victor.
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I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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I want to play interesting women.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.
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What's most important in animation is the emotions and the ideas being portrayed. I'm a great believer of energy and emotion.
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There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite naturally and fully.
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If you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
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All you have to do is be able to feel.
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I'd like to find someone to procreate with - as sexy as that sounds. If you're out and about and fit the description, come up and say hi. I won't bite. Well, maybe a little, if you're lucky.
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If you lose today, win tomorrow. In this never-ending spirit of challenge is found the heart of a victor.
