David Strathairn Quotes
So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.
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I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
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The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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I'm very lazy; if it takes me longer than 15 or 20 minutes to get ready, then I don't want to do it. So I wear a lot of jeans and T-shirts and very normal kind of tomboyish sort of things.
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The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy.
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I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.
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I'm at a point where there isn't any wasted movement in the throwing motion. Everything is consistent and smooth. When I first got into the league, I held the ball really high. That was the standard in college, and it messed up my timing a little bit - the draw, bringing it back, then the release.
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So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.
