Brian De Palma Quotes
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Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff.
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
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I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.
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I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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It was sort of his 'Brando' moment - his very 'method' moment. He just absorbed it and continued on.
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Working with Jon Hamm was super-fun because he's a brilliant actor and he's very kind. I would hang around sets for scenes that I wasn't even in because I wanted to watch how he worked.
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It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.
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By any measure, NBC is a corporation.
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People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
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It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
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Ike's problem was that he was a musician that always wanted to be a star; and was a star, locally, but never internationally... so he then changed the name to Ike and changed my name to Tina because if I ran away, Tina was his name. It was patented as you call it.
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Certainly adding fats in the form of oils is fattening and unhealthy, but naturally fat-rich foods like nuts and seeds have profound cardiovascular benefits.
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When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
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I don't see scarey films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.
