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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La notte che le cose ci nasconde.
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These were the Sophists, and their interest was in teaching the use of argumentative skills of the sort previous philosophers had exhibited, but as a means of attaining worldly success, for instance in politics. Unfortunately, they gained a reputation for being rather cynical and unscrupulous in their argumentative standards: any old argument would do as long as it persuaded one’s listener, even if it was totally fallacious; what mattered was winning the debate, not arriving at the truth, and the line between logic and rhetoric was thus blurred.
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From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.
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... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.
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As a child, I never wanted my parents to be unhappy, which meant that I would always contemplate what would make them happy.
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I don't think I have one iota of cynicism about acting.
