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The bohemian artist who exists only for his art, it's a myth. OK, it might have been true for Giacometti, but it certainly wasn't for Picasso or Mozart.
The fact that Facebook presents facial recognition programmes as a desirable development, well, that in itself is a decisive step toward fascism, as far as I'm concerned.
The thing about 'Spectre' is that it is not the work of hack writers. It does not have a hack director. The actors are not hams.
The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliche villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don't know. My Russian accent isn't that great, and the muscles aren't that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff.
There is no such thing as pure art. It's a bourgeois conceit.
There is one thing I do miss in L.A. I love autumn.
Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.
When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it.
You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?
You get hit over the knuckles enough, you don't stick them out anymore.
You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.
You know, I don't talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid about it and I kind of squirmed when I was asked, 'Could you tell us something about your character.' Now with a little self-confidence that comes with the grey beard, I just flatly refuse.
You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it's some psychological fixation, something that happened in puberty that you didn't outgrow in time, which is normal. Nevertheless, if you make it a profession, it can be really neurotic.
You're always being cast for what you've been in last.
As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times.
For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.
I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly.
Sticking wires into the brain is obviously rather crude. It's hard to do in animals that run around, and there is a physical limit to the number of wires that can be inserted simultaneously.
I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.
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A. P. Herbert
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24 September, 1890
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11 November, 1971
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