Cyril Connolly Quotes
Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.
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Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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I hate competition.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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There was a verse that said if you are lukewarm rather than hot or cold, God will spit you out of his mouth on Judgment Day. And I felt like, I mean, I don't know. I'm lukewarm.
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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.
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Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.
