John Lennon Quotes
I'd always felt repressed. We were all so pressurised that there was hardly any chance of expressing ourselves, especially working at that rate, touring continually and always kept in a cocoon of myths and dreams.
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You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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The thing I love about being a novelist is that with each project, you invent a new world. You approach it with a different set of aesthetic and structural ideas, and you grapple with a different series of problems in figuring out how to tell the story. And yet there are certain concerns that stay constant.
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How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.
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The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.
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Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.
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The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
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The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated – with his body and, through his body, with his environment. He has a sense of well-being and inner peace. He gains the knowledge that the life of the body resides in its involuntary aspect. […] Unfortunately these beautiful feelings do not always hold up under the stress of daily living in our modern culture. The pace, the pressure and the philosophy of our times are antithetical to life.
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I'd always felt repressed. We were all so pressurised that there was hardly any chance of expressing ourselves, especially working at that rate, touring continually and always kept in a cocoon of myths and dreams.
