Agatha Christie Quotes
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I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break.
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It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
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My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.
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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.
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He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
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One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move.
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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
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It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment.
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My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.
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I love you only because it's you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly.
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Perhaps a little of Trollope, but not to drown in him.
