Powers Boothe Quotes
I like to do things that are about relationships, work with quality people, and tell a different kind of story.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity - of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.
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People expect me to be funnier.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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We try very quickly to show that we are not at war with the Iraqi people. We're trying to deal with the people who are indeed themselves at war with the Iraqi people.
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In the film work, I love to work mainly from the script and from talking to the directors, so a lot of the music, big portions of the scores that I've made, have been composed before the movies were even shot.
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I like to do things that are about relationships, work with quality people, and tell a different kind of story.
