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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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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We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.
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The less life in a person, the more he will try to live off your life.
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I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.
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If thou wouldst be interesting, keep thy personality in the background, and be great and strong in and through thy subject.
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I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.
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What's successful is when you are good at what you aim to do. And I don't think that Nas has aimed to do anything that he hasn't done. So he is a good businessman.
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I don't see scarey films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.
