- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in rural Ohio in the 1950s, where my dad became the town doctor and I was born.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Agnes Varda changed my view of cinema; she directs from an artistic point of view, and a film is most of all the expression of an artistic director. I learnt to enter the world and the imagination of a director.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be a dream to do a film with Pedro Almodovar and that whole crew of Spaniards. There's this Argentinian actor who's one of my favorite actors in the whole wide world. His name is Ricardo Darin, and he's a brilliant actor. He does a lot of Argentinian films, and I know he does a lot of European films, as a Spanish actor.
- Business Side
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope to get my name out there more in the Spanish-language business side of the world.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written about superheroes. I've written about talking ferrets and math geniuses being chased by madmen. I've written about spies and demon-hunting soccer moms. I've created an entire world that centers around a paranormal judicial system.
- Nov 07, 2020
My characters populate a big, vibrant world. Sometimes they rub shoulders. Sometimes they don't.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing.
- Expectancy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met Clinton at a benefit for teachers, which was a very good charity, but I met him for about 90 seconds, and I thought it was important to meet the leader of the free world. So I stood next to him for a photograph, and then apparently that's all it takes.
- Futuristic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I play a scientist in a futuristic world in which 99% of the men have been wiped out. As a result, the women are nearly all homosexuals and the children are cloned.
- Better Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.
- Gravy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during World War II drawing stocking seams in eyebrow pencil up the back of legs stained with gravy browning because nylons were so hard to get hold of.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020