Bill Le Quotes
When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.
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We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
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There are times as an actor when you don't work for two months, sometimes three or sometimes six, and the only thing that's going to keep you sane is if you give back and live your life. I've definitely gone through that. It's like, 'Okay, I'm out of work for two months.' That's two months I can paint.
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We also have a real opportunity to join NATO.
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One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, 'Wait - you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it?'
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Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.
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Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.
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When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.
