Christian Slater Quotes
I'm not a great card player. Keeping my cards close has always been a challenge for me.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.
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I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've normalized it. You don't think, 'I'm going to watch that comedy starring a woman,' you think, 'I'm going to watch that funny show.' They refuse to play the foils for men, or be reduced to the butt of every joke, and I love that about both of them.
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For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
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Even if it's a wonderful life, you wanna go somewhere and see the way other people reflect on the world and the lives that we're all living... I think regional theater is the life blood of our cultural lives.
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.
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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
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The purposeful many need not and will not bow to the willful few.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.
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My personal challenge is always balance. My life has a lot of compartments to it, and I care about each of them deeply. So I wake up each day thinking, 'How am I going to balance today?'
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I'm not a great card player. Keeping my cards close has always been a challenge for me.
