Donald Sutherland Quotes
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When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
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I'm someone who sits at a computer eight hours a day, and I look in that pinhole camera at the top of my screen and think, 'Someone could be watching me.'
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South Korea's economy is still difficult. I will create a country where nobody worries about putting food on the table.
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Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.
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One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
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Shopping for hijabs has always been fun for me. I was so excited to begin wearing a headscarf. I had always looked up to my mother as she wore hers, and I was eager to emulate her beauty and the wonderful things she represented.
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My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.
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I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.
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I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.
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As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.
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There's just something about the audiences in Detroit that I've always felt connected to. Detroit is different.
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Doing 'YHA' felt as if I was shooting for a film because it was a love story with a definite ending and good script.
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I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.
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If a footballer presents himself as a family man and goes and has sex with a prostitute, should he gag her?
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My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.
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The government is now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s - use a crisis of the times to create new institutions that will last for generations. To this day, we are still subsidizing millionaires in agriculture because farmers were having a tough time in the 1930s.
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I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.
