Cyril Tourneur Quotes
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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I'm the diva from the future. The next gig's on the moon. Catch me while you can.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
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I'm a dork!
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It is the ability of governments to acquire money without direct taxation that makes modern warfare possible, and a central bank has become the preferred method of accomplishing that.
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In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another practitioner or from books; or through obtaining magic from a powerful being-think Faust or the classic, demonized witch, both of whom get their mojo from Satan.
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Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into a tree and you walk away from it.
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My wife speaks very good French. She said she would miss lots of things in the U.S., but we can't live there if Trump's president.
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When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.
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When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good.
