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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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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You can't keep wanting to be 20 years old. Everybody knows that, but what's in the next room?
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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My part as an actor ends on the last working day. I think the success or failure only really matters to the producer or whoever it matters to. For me, when I finish the film, I'm done, and if I'm happy, that's that.
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Strict gun laws are about as effective as strict drug laws...It pains me to say this, but the NRA seems to be right: The cities and states that have the toughest gun laws have the most murder and mayhem.
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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.
