Arthur Koestler Quotes
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I was not getting work, even after auditioning for films. So I started working in a studio as a photographer; I assisted a cinematographer for two ads. I was thinking that I will get into photography or cinematography or assist someone. But then the 'Dangal' offer came, and I was busy with the auditions.
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When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple weeks ago, I think I felt obligated to bring a Super Bowl to Minnesota.
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.
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If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.
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My life is not perfect.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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There are no second acts in American lives.
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I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.
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I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.
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I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.
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Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.
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I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.
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The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.
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If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't like, then you tend not to appreciate the cultural lessons you're learning.
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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
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I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?
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I love watching TV.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, but some episodes of those short years remain clear and brightly coloured like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope.
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The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards.
