"Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate."
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"Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded."
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"Sometimes people come in as a director, and they just want the result, and they barely want that to tell you the truth. Sometimes directors barely talk to the actors; they are so focused on the cinematic elements of the movie, getting the shot and getting the lighting right or getting the CGI effects right and all of that, and they just trust that you are just going to do what you do."
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"I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements."
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"I just like the insides of things and finding ways into microscopic worlds. There's also an element of control, taking things apart and putting them back together. It's a very tedious task. You can be alone and create a world for yourself."
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"Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show."
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"I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything."
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"Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice."
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"But basically what I like are the possibilities, and the fantasy element of the show. Not science fantasy so much, but fantasy, the humanistic elements and how people relate when they’re in a dire situation or comedic situation."
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"Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don't know. And there are elements of magic realism in every culture, everywhere. It's just accepting that we don't know everything and everything is possible."
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"That which had grown from the earth, to the earth, But that which has sprung from heavenly seed, Back to the heavenly realms returns. This is either a dissolution of the mutual involution of the atoms, or a similar dispersion of the unsentient elements."
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"A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was."
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"Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria."
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"Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity."
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"Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work."
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"Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements."
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"Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience."
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"So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement."
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"Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance."
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"One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in."
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