Arthur Ashin (Autre Ne Veut) Quotes
My mom is the type of mom who wonders why I haven't used my psychology degree to become a successful clinical psychologist.
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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I can't imagine being mayor and not having had the experience working for President Clinton or President Obama, or, for that matter, working in Congress. On the other hand, I think I would have been a better adviser had I been mayor first. If I had had this job first, I could have seen the implications of things I was doing.
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All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'
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What does not exist must be something, or it would be meaningless to deny its existence; and hence we need the concept of being, as that which belongs even to the non-existent.
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With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.
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I did a film called 'Victor' that I'm really proud of! It was a period piece and the true life story of Victor Torres. I play his mom, and it's a very moving film.
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I've always been a very outdoors sort of girl. I'm more a tomboy than a girly girl.
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My mom is the type of mom who wonders why I haven't used my psychology degree to become a successful clinical psychologist.
