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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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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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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I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.
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Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.
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Post-modernism ‘ironises’ out all questions of meaning. It reduces everything to the ‘been there, done that’ mentality, and shrinks the world to a theory of everything that can fit on a T-shirt. It lets us off the hook. We no longer have to be good, just good enough. It lowers the existential bar, and moves the metaphysical goal posts closer, or gets rid of them entirely.
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I like Cronenberg's early work; his '80s films had all these weird, amorphous flesh objects in them.
