Adolf Loos Quotes
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.
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I guess I'm lucky that I've been able to play a wide range of parts and a wide range of types of productions - I haven't felt much typecasting.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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Actually, I am loathe to admit, but I also remember freshman year of Emory - and I'm so sorry to have to admit this - but there was a Domino's Pizza in Emory Village, where I went to college, and I was ordering a pizza.
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For Aldo to say he is the king and I am the joker, if this was a different time, I would invade his favela on horseback and kill anyone that was not fit to work. But we are in a new time. So I'll whoop his ass in July.
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I'll leave my house if I need to. Otherwise I'm super comfortable in my own space, in my own company.
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.