Jeff Bridges Quotes
You have these big $200 and $300 million movies with special effects, and I've always thought, 'Gee, why don't we make 30 movies instead of one $300 million movie?' Let's shake it up a bit; wouldn't that be a better bet? Evidently not.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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There is no truly global justice.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
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It is not oil or the environment, it is oil and the environment. We are living in the same world. We are not enemies.
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I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31.
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Life is about perspective and how you look at something... ultimately, you have to zoom out.
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I hate downtime.
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What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last.
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You have these big $200 and $300 million movies with special effects, and I've always thought, 'Gee, why don't we make 30 movies instead of one $300 million movie?' Let's shake it up a bit; wouldn't that be a better bet? Evidently not.
