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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!
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The ADA is the living testament to our Nation's commitment that we will always stand up for our neighbors' right to live fulfilling lives.
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I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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You probably can't name more than a handful of comedies that would qualify for Best Picture. I can think of a lot of comedy screenplays; Woody Allen has had numerous nominations for his screenplays. But most comedies are calculated. They tend to pander. They're not about anything important.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
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There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.
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It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
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When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, that is how we create terrorists.
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained.
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I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid, my grandfather used to drive me past the Barrow Filling Station. At my elementary school, there was a barn outside that they used to say was a Bonnie and Clyde hangout.
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They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.
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So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.
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You don't do classics with a Texas accent.
