David Strathairn Quotes
It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to this film - it would give it a longer life. People seem to need that validation to go to a film these days.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.
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The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.
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Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.
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You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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I've only kept one award in my whole life, and it's the coolest thing ever. Mizuno gave me a samurai sword for winning the Cy Young. It's awesome.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.
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Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
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I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.
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My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.
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There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.
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I don't mean to sound like a Pollyanna, but for me, New York is the ideal because of the diversity here. 'Billy on the Street' is really informed by that.
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My professional life has been about public service. My personal life I define very intently through my family.
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Whilst in ordinary life every shopkeeper is very well able to distinguish between what somebody professes to be and what he really is, our historians have not yet won even this trivial insight. They take every epoch at its word concerning what it says and imagines about itself.
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It would be real nice to have some kind of bell or whistle attached to this film - it would give it a longer life. People seem to need that validation to go to a film these days.
