Claude McKay Quotes
If we must die, O let us nobly die,So that our precious blood may not be shedIn vain; then even the monsters we defyShall be constrained to honor us though dead!
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.
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I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.
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No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.
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I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
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You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.
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I think as an actor, it's very exciting when you have a really fully realized, complex, multifaceted character already established.
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If we must die, O let us nobly die,So that our precious blood may not be shedIn vain; then even the monsters we defyShall be constrained to honor us though dead!
