Haile Selassie Quotes
Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.
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People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to become scientists as they neared thirty.
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The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.
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The best actors just stay in the moment,and whatever happens in the scene is a genuine surprise. You really do not know what's going to happen next. But living that out in life is very dangerous because it throws you into a place where you don't know if you're going to survive.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.
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Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.
