Dana Delany Quotes
If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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You either get better, or you don't progress.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.
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Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.
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A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
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Turnout is good for the system.
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I've only cried at one book, but I'm too embarrassed to tell you which. It wasn't terribly intellectual. I will admit, though, to crying when I've read books aloud to my elementary class. We read a biography of Gandhi once, and it was very difficult to read the part where Gandhi was killed, because they were waiting for a happy ending.
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.
