Donald Rumsfeld Quotes
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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I love curves; I'm all about curves. I don't have many, which is really sad, but I think the more the better.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.
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It's nice to look out and see your family supporting you.
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I wonder if people who see 'Blade' will have even seen my other movies. But I don't want all my movies to be in a vacuum. I need a balance because one pays, and the other doesn't.
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I always thought the desert was the antithesis of peace - something that attacks you. So you don't go to the desert for peace.
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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
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I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.
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Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.
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This is a remote location, far from any possible landing sites. It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that, according to this new data, flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean
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The dead don't die. They look on and help.
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Life is not a monotone but a many-stringed harmony, and to this harmony is contributed a distinctive note by each individual.
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You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream, you've got to get out there and make it happen yourself.
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After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit' and 'La Cretion du Monde.' I especially enjoy his work for two pianos, 'Scaramouche.'
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He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.
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You don't get old being stupid.
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There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed.
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Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems.
