Plato Quotes
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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I know people who prepare their roles in such a way that they technically look ahead and memorize their gestures, and then they stick to it. Those that are technically proficient enough can make it seem natural, but they do that and don't really take in what other people are doing.
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I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.
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I'll never get another first premiere again, especially at Sundance. I've just been trying to fully engage myself in everything that's going on, and I hope to see other movies here while I'm here! I really want to!
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I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.
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We do not have that much to moan about when one thinks of what people did not moan about before.
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I'm not out trying to prove anything. I'm sort of finished with that, so I get to play in other sandboxes and try and figure out what I like and I'm interested in.
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“Not all battles can be won. Not all lives can be saved. And no matter how we wish it, not all songs end in joy.”
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I know that men ain't supposed to cry, but I think that's wrong. Crying's always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often cry. Crying is feeling, and feeling is being human.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
