Mark Ruffalo Quotes
What is happiness other than a negotiation between reality and your dreams? It's understanding that you give up something for something else. I feel like that's been how I've been trying to be happy, although in my DNA there's more of a depressed person.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
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When I wrote 'Hatchet,' I knew that I was not re-inventing the wheel. That was never my intention. My goal was to make an '80s-style slasher flick that actually holds up. Basically, I wanted to make the movie that I wanted to see and pay no mind to current trends or conventions.
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I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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I've always wanted to create shoes that were positive and happy.
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I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.
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I just keep doing what I'm doing and don't ever give up.
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Rihanna is always on my playlist. I think she pumps you up and gets the day going. I also love - and I know this doesn't sound like a workout album - the Lumineers, lately, and Taylor Swift.
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When I first visited the Hospice in Milton, I had a pre-conceived idea as to what to expect. Far from being a clinical, depressing place for sick children, it was a home. Most importantly, it was a family home, a happy place of stability, support and care. It was a place of fun.
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I don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli.
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The batsman does not always need to create big hits. He can hit a boundary, then pick up some singles and still gets nine runs. To avoid that, I need to plan in a way where he must look to hit wherever there is a fielder. That is what is called 'bowling to the field.'
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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I want to do a make-up line for men.
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When you play a lead role, you're in pretty much every scene. It's incredibly tiring. You really have to disappear into the film because you have no time to do anything else. You are either awake and playing the character, or you are trying to catch up on sleep.
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In the free world, your days pass very quickly because you have so many things to do, and you're in control of your life.
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Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
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I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.
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It meant a lot to me that Chelsea have wanted me for the last three years and that is the reason I chose them. It was important for me to come to a club with the same level of excellence. It is a great team and it is important to play for a great team.
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What is happiness other than a negotiation between reality and your dreams? It's understanding that you give up something for something else. I feel like that's been how I've been trying to be happy, although in my DNA there's more of a depressed person.
