Christian Bale Quotes
It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before.
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The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'
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Social peace requires reciprocity.
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I am opposed to a multicultural France. I think that those who have a different culture and who arrive in France have to submit themselves to French culture.
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'British Vogue' is a great magazine with a legacy of creativity and innovation.
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Telling me that I can't do something is probably the worst thing that anyone can say, because I'll definitely do it. I'm very determined.
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Once I started taking drama classes, I asked myself why I had ever wasted so much time on a football team.
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Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.
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It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before.
