Kim Novak Quotes
The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.
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Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.
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I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
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A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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I like not having to worry about paying the bills, but I have to watch myself because I don't come from money.
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As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.
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Everybody right now, they look at the current technology, and they think, 'OK, that's what artificial neural nets are.' And they don't realize how arbitrary it is. We just made it up! And there's no reason why we shouldn't make up something else.
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People only say I'm angry because I'm black and I'm a woman. But all sorts of people write with strong feeling, the way I do.
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For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.
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The thing I loved about Alfred Hitchcock is that he left a lot of open ends there, a lot of clues that didn't really add up the way you think they would, and sometimes, not at all.
