Dean Wareham Quotes
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
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I've always been happy with my body.
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown.
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One of the major things in any dance-based reality show is how smartly you can impress the audience and keep your cool throughout the show.
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I'm a true fan of animation, and it's my livelihood. Live-action is secondary to me.
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I'm from a country where acting is taken very seriously; it's a very serious profession.
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I was the kid who would join a sports team and be the biggest liability at first and a star player by the time the game got going. I just move very slowly.
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Writing a song is a long road. Or it can be.
