Jeremy Renner Quotes
Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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Elves are cool, man.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
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There's no regrets for me.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!
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I have never heard a dancer asking for advice about how to stay focused on her footwork, or a painter complaining about the dull day-to-day task of painting. What task worth doing isn't worth daily effort? Do you think Michelangelo was having fun the whole time he was on his back painting the Sistine Chapel's ceiling?
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I'm not someone who shies away from darkness being funny. I think that life is very dark at times, and there are things that are very funny about that.
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Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.
