Dennis Hastert Quotes
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
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Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
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I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.
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My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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I've had people come up to me after the show and say, 'Why did you not make fun of Pakistan?' People are actually upset you didn't talk about them.
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A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.
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Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.
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My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'
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We're there, ... We can debate the reasons why we're there. ... But we are there.
