August Strindberg Quotes
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We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.
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A common mistake people make regarding dining rooms is to buy a matching set of table and chairs, which can be monotonous. I like to mix guest chairs in one style and head chairs in another for a more interesting, dynamic look.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
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Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.
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I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
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When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.
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So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
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L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
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When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.
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Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.
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Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.
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It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
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There were a few 6th form girls that I got with when I was I the 6th form, they were really nice, so that was cool.
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I am grateful to have had the opportunity to play for and work under the best, Pat Summitt.
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I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.
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If we're going to keep ourselves interested, we can't play for the reviewer and we can't just play for the audience. In the end, you have to just play for yourself.
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Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.
