Walter Scott Quotes
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I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
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The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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Beauty is not just physical.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
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You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
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Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.
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My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.
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I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.
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I'm not a violent person, but I've got a hard core streak and have a reputation about living dangerously.
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I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby.
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I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
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When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.'
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I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.
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Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.
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Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.
