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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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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Whether it's a kid in high school who doesn't have any friends and finds friends in my characters, or a guy in Afghanistan, who's trying to forget what he did that day, and trying not to think about what he's gotta do tomorrow... I give them a little bit of an escape.
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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
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The laws recognize no obligation on the part of the slave to labor for or serve his master. If he refuse to labor, the law will not interfere to compel him. The master must do his own flogging, as in the case of an ox or a horse.
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I hope to play well and get better and better.
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If acting with other people is in your plans, then you need to learn how to work with other people to build a comedic premise.
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I like Cronenberg's early work; his '80s films had all these weird, amorphous flesh objects in them.
