Arthur Ashin (Autre Ne Veut) Quotes
I like Cronenberg's early work; his '80s films had all these weird, amorphous flesh objects in them.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
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The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.
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I'm not a politician.
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What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.
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Most actors here go to the West Coast; I ended up going to Ireland. My buddies who left drama school, they had this arrogance - 'We don't want to typecast ourselves.' But I said, 'I want to do Irish parts. That's the thing that's gonna give me the leg up.'
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I remember when I drove into Notre Dame, getting ready for the first day of work. I had an electrical charge go up my back because I realized all of a sudden that I was responsible for the traditions that the Knute Rocknes and the Frank Leahys had set, and what Notre Dame stood for.
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I like Cronenberg's early work; his '80s films had all these weird, amorphous flesh objects in them.
