Nick Harkaway Quotes

I think lots of boys sat down with 'The Three Musketeers' and felt it was a really long book, but then discovered that it's a really gripping swashbuckling story.

Nick Harkaway

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I like tight bodies and pretty faces. You bring in Methuselah, if she's got a tight body and a pretty face, that's all right, too.

Jim Brown

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Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.

John Fiske

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One way or another, I want to be a positive force for the people of Louisiana and the United States of America in whatever way I can serve.

John Fleming

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Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

John le Carre

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Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I'm on today.

John Lewis

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Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

Steve Lacy

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Only a fool permits the letter of the law to override the spirit in the heart. Do not let a piece of paper stand in the way of true love and headlines.

Rod Stewart

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In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.

Rodrigo Santoro

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The point of being a movie star is that people cast you in a role. Actors tie themselves in knots trying to get out of that.

Romola Garai

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He didn't maintain my illusion of myself, he gave me an illusion of myself. Before I met him, I never thought of myself as an actress. Boy, he sidetracked me in a great way!

Judy Holliday

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Simplicity - that's what I want. It's been a rare commodity for me for a number of years, but I enjoy being able to hang out with my girl, read the newspaper, and sit back and start to read a book by someone I admire, like Lawrence Krauss or Christopher Hitchens. And that's it - simplicity, where the game of Hollywood doesn't exist.

Johnny Depp

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The climate has always changed - after all, we've had numerous ice ages without human influence - but human activity has undoubtedly exacerbated Earth's natural trends beyond its capacity to adjust.

Christine Todd Whitman

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