David Strathairn Quotes
I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the '50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that what makes life worth living, the good life, consists of accepting challenges, solving problems, discovery, personal growth, personal change.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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Designers have told me that their collections are so me, but I don't always recognise it because if you ask me what my style is, I'm really not that sure.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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When you're competitive, the last thing you want to do is come out of a game, regardless of what kind of injury it is - whether it's an ankle, a knee, a rib, or a head injury.
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Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
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I loved learning to fight and kill zombies.
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Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.
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The world today needs both western thinking and oriental vision.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the '50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way.
