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“To me acting is a hobby and I'm inspired by it. And if I'm going to spend time doing something that I'm not really inspired to do, then why am I doing it? I don't know if that sounds sort of new agey or whatever, but it's true. I've been lucky enough to have a musical career that has gone pretty good and acting is something I have always wanted to do.”
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“Hunger, thirst, heat and cold: I had tasted them in full”
Source : Wilfred Thesiger (2008). “Arabian Sands”, p.23, Penguin
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“One thing I feel is this: that a great deal of poetry is the product of adolescence-or of an emotionally adolescent frame of mind: and that as this state of mind changes, poetry is likely to dry up.”
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“I almost feel like its an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure. I dont want to paint the same painting again. I dont want to make the same sculpture again. Why shouldnt a big movie studio be able to make those small independent kinds of pictures? Why not change it up?”
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“You gotta live life. You gotta enjoy life. I mean, I don't live on the edge.”
Source : Source: www.deathandtaxesmag.com
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“It's not ok when around 1 million New Zealanders don't vote.”
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“I think one of my biggest lessons so far in life is that hard work really does pay off. It may not culminate in the way you expected it to, but I have found that when I really put my head down and apply myself, I often get a good result.”
Source : "Amanda Schull Suits and 12 Monkeys actor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 
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“I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man.”
Source : Cleveland Amory (1980). “The trouble with nowadays: a curmudgeon strikes back”, G K Hall & Co
