James Cook Quotes
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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The world is a dangerous place to live.
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I feel like I've been able to live a dream life, but my view of things is absolutely inside behavior about how I behave and how I count on other people behaving.
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The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.
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Role models really matter. It's hard to imagine yourself as something you don't see.
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I didn't really grow up with any traditions. I grew up in a pretty liberal household in Southern California. I think that's part of my interest in thinking about heritage. I don't have a second language or cultural heritage in that way.
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Those who live off of the donations of capitalism are often its greatest critics.
