Roland Orzabal Quotes
You are unfortunately most of the time defined by your success, when your success is not a major part of your personality.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.
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When you're talking about Tim Burton, you're talking about a guy that has such a visual sense, an aesthetic, a storytelling style. It's like he's got his own genre.
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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
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The idea of recklessly spending money - even though it sounds like it's lots of fun, it's fashion - isn't interesting to me. It is a business.
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Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.
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The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.
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The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.
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In the summer of 2007, two-time Olympic champion Guillermo Rigondeaux and his teammate, Erislandy Lara, had been arrested in Brazil after going AWOL from the Cuban team during the Pan Am Games. The defection attempt made international news and quickly became a national soap opera, regularly appearing on Cuban news and round table discussions.
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Dementia is quite unlike cancer or heart disease or any of those other conditions where you bargain with God for a cure or even just a bit more time.
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You take the best ingredients - the best cocoa beans - and you process them in the best traditional way, and you have the best chocolate.
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Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
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Good scripts have always been, I think, hard to find. Good storytelling, good writing - it's just not easy. I have made it a point that - if I'm going to put the energy into doing this work - I will wait until I find something I'm really happy with.
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You are unfortunately most of the time defined by your success, when your success is not a major part of your personality.
