Augustus Quotes
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).
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The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it.
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The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.
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I don't enjoy putting my characters through hell unless there's a reason. I don't use violence or anything just for shock value. They're always a means to an end.
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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
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Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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What is done well is done quickly enough.
