David Strathairn Quotes
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.
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My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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Every company has to identify what I call its strategic resources, and make sure that it grabs as much of its strategic resources as possible.
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I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.
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I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.
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There is the GIS world that is largely managing authoritative data sources, supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads, making cities more livable through better planning, environmental management, forest management, drilling in the right location for oil, managing assets and utilities.
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I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.
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It's not a bad time to be me.
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I am very highly appreciated in my country, and everybody seems to love me.
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I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.
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Too much of a good thing can be taxing.
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I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.
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Entrepreneurs are moving from a world of problem-solving to a world of problem-finding. The very best ones are able to uncover problems people didn't realize that they had.
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In England, when we're at drama school, we spend a lot of time learning the craft from playwrights and stage actors, who are very well trained in the basics of acting because they need to get it right the first time - you can't have second or third takes when you're in front of a live audience, unlike in film.
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Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn't make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.
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The worst hotels are any with a bad bed. I stayed in a hotel where they left cards telling me my enjoyment was of paramount importance. I should have written, 'Nice rooms, crap beds.'
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The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to.
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I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned.
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If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.
