"Acting is the most demanding, painful job in the world."
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"Most of us have love in our lives. Most of us love other people are are ourselves loved by others. But make no mistake: you are alone in the world. You were born alone, even if you were born conjoined. And you die alone, unable to bring a single person with you."
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"More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves – they can't depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world."
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"I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world."
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"Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world."
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"I feel that the BBC World Service is not as versatile as it used to be - or perhaps I'm not listening at the right times."
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"For film, you know, the Tarantinos and Nolans of the world who are very focused on a certain kind of film aesthetic and a certain kind of presentation, to be honest, that comes from a place of privilege. It comes from a place of always having access to such, but when you ain't never - you can't see it because you can't even get to it."
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"I think in the bridal world you definitely have to be on your toes at all times."
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"I don't know if I'll ever direct, but producing is dipping my toe into my behind-the-scenes world."
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"The worst feeling in the world is giving a bad audition."
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"It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage."
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"In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both."
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"You'd let the whole world perish rather than soil that immaculate self of yours with a single spot of which you'd have to be ashamed."
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"You will follow me, if we are what we are, you and I, if we live, if the world exists, if you know the meaning of this moment and can't let it slip by, as others let it slip, into the senselessness of the unwilled and unreached."
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"I will not die, it's the world that will end." paraphrase of unknown philosopher"
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"The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it."
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"You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! - and that! - and that! - and that!"
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"Making money and doing good in the world are not mutually exclusive."
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"The next generation will remake the world in a way that allows us to live in a more sustainable way, both personally and globally."
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"Failure is an integral part of life and that perfection is not of this world."
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