I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
A. S. Byatt
Recitation: by Male by Female
Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.
Jeanine Basinger
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I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
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Am I a car aficionado? No: for me, cars have always been just for transport. I didn't even know anyone who had a car until I was 14 or 15.
Michael Caine
CarMeKnowAlwaysTransportBeen
Of course, you wouldn't want to re-create the era of aristocracy; it was a totally unfair era. The finer aspects of it were admirable, and so there's nostalgia for that: the behavior, the values, the cultural sensitivities.
Amor Towles
BehaviorYouValuesNostalgiaWant
I was fooled a bit during 'Laguna Beach.' I was 17, 18 years old, and I thought they just wanted to shoot a documentary, and that it probably wouldn't end up anywhere, anyway. Little did we know about the power of editing. I had no idea that it was going to be the soap drama that it was, but I picked up on that pretty quickly.
Stephen Colletti
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I don't think I've ever tried to change anyone. I don't have the energy.
Rupert Everett
ChangeEnergyThinkTriedEver
I'm excited to doing more scoring work in the future.
Mike Shinoda
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It was a big surprise when I started to get attention in Sweden, going from biochemistry studies to touring and living from music only. There were a couple of years while I went to university when I was OK with thinking of music as just a nice recreation.
Jose Gonzalez
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The best thing is to go public only when you're absolutely sure that's the right move for the company. And in order to make sure that is the case, you need to have as much control over the company as possible, which means not giving up control early on.
Jon Oringer
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Big successful corporations have established their own culture by the time you come along, so you have as high of a chance of changing their overall culture as you have of convincing the U.S. Marines to adopt the 'long-haired look' as their standard military haircut.
Clay Clark
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As I got older, I went to school. I started doing plays, I learned about the craft of acting, and I started to love acting for different reasons. I think I started to love acting because it brought me closer to people and made me more compassionate.
Sean Gunn
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At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'.
Marjorie Scardino
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