There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.

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Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ― Marthe Troly

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As an actor, often you're stuck with these scenes in which a great period of time is in between them - for example, if you do a biopic, it might be a year, it might be a decade, you never know.

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What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

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Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.

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Think of all the years passed by in which you said to yourself "I'll do it tomorrow," and how the gods have again and again granted you periods of grace of which you have not availed yourself. It is time to realize that you are a member of the Universe, that you are born of Nature itself, and to know that a limit has been set to your time. Use every moment wisely, to perceive your inner refulgence, or 'twill be gone and nevermore within your reach.

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We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.

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They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.

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Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. - Walt Whitman

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