Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now.
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I've been able to sell a number of pilots. Most have been based on my personal experience, so basically, my pitches have been like 'Sit-'n-Spin' pieces.
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Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
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I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.
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I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.
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It's hard for me to judge my own films as an artist sometimes. But as an artist, I did feel a fulfillment working on them, you know?
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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Paris 1933 - 1944 with its wonderful (intense soft) light had relaxed my palette - there were other colors, other entirely new forms, and some that I had used years earlier. Naturally I did all this unconsciously.
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You don't see your prison because its bars are invisible.
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And then you start getting into the technical side of it and the aesthetic side and with those areas you can come up with new ways to visualise things, new ways to render and use the computer to make things look different and new and stuff like that.
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I love Michel Roux, Jr., and James Martin - the chefs who are experts in their own right, like Rick Stein on fish. But I don't watch them very much because I don't think it's fair for my husband to be in a total food environment all the time! So we watch programmes about gardening more.
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Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.
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I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.
