Ben Jonson Quotes
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
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I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.
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Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
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I feel creatively vibrant. I have some great friends; I feel like I'm capable of giving a lot to the world. And ultimately, that's what I really care about, is just giving.
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In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
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I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.
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For me, doing a show is great, but I want women to be able to wear the clothes easily as well.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we've had.
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Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.
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I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference.
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Sure, the home-field is an advantage - but so is having a lot of talent.
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No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy.
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If all you boast of your great art be true; Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.
