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“I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.”
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“Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.”
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“A gentleman can always be told by the way he speaks to those that he thinks are his inferiors in some respect. His equals he does not wish to offend, his superiors he does not dare to offend, and of those whom he considers his inferiors he would be all the more considerate.”
Source : Fanny Jackson Coppin (1987). “Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching”, Facsimiles-Garl
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“The dream world of sleep and the dream world of music are not far apart. I often catch glimpses of one as I pass through a door to the other, like encountering a neighbor in the hallway going into the apartment next to one’s own. In the recording studio, I would often lie down to nap and wake up with harmony parts fully formed in my mind, ready to be recorded. I think of music as dreaming in sound.”
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“Nights without beginning that had no end. Talking about a past as if it'd really happened. Telling themselves that this time next year, this time next year, things were going to be different.”
Source : Raymond Carver (2015). “All of Us: The Collected Poems”, p.121, Vintage
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“Do not desire to hear about the misfortunes of those who oppose you. For those who listen to such speech later reap the fruits of their evil intention.”
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“My career was always full of risks one way or another, and that's the way I like it.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.”
Source : Timothy Rogers, Rupert Brooke (1971). “Rupert Brooke: A Reappraisal and Selection from His Writings”