Billy Zane Quotes
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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The difference between the Bush I war against Iraq and the Bush II war against Iraq is that in the first one, we appealed to the sentiments and interests of the different groupings in the region and had them with us. In the second one, we did it on our own, on the basis of false premises, with extremely brutality and lack of political skill.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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Whenever you have a crisis, you're always going to have the extremists taking advantage of the situation.
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I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
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One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.
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People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
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Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.
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My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.
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Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.
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I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.
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Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
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I like darker, mysterious scents and things that reflect my personality.
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I do not fear grassy tracks. Whether there is grass or not on the wicket, I am not worried.
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You don't appreciate home until you leave it and, let me tell you, you can't appreciate life till you've almost left it! Some people hope and die with their song still in them. I used to think that happiness resulted when my earnings matched my yearnings! But not anymore!
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Every time I started painting it was like a new experience, but they all came out the same.
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The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a voodoo ceremony, and then go to a Catholic church and tell me which music you liked better, to which one the music is more integral.
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You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he.
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The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about right and wrong.
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Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does 'culture' become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.
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An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.
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I paint abstract expressions.
