Jacques Maritain Quotes
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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We just here to do our job.
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I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.
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I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
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When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.
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Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
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When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
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Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.
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We don't care if you understand us.
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You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.
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It's usually my mom who gets on me about my facial hair. I can't grow a good mustache, so I guess it's just a neck beard. I just have trouble growing up there.
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I retired from acting the same time they stopped hiring me. But following my own thing of making these small indie movies has been the happiest I've ever been.
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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
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I grew up fundamentalist, evangelical, Protestant. Those are my roots, and they are good roots. But it means the Pharisees are my people. I grew up with an image of God that was not helpful -- largely the face of my father expanded.
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Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.
