Walt Whitman Quotes
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I told my agents that I love Holly Hunter and Frances McDormand and all of these women that are good at doing comedies as well as dramas.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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When an audience is affected in a way that I've seen with some people, it's so inspiring to me an actor. You know that you're on the right track and you're doing work that can affect people. When that goes hand-in-hand with important issues that we're still living with, and we will be for a long time, sadly, it's so confirming of everything.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
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Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.
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The Indonesian brands aren't interested in sports people, only movie stars, because they can get more exposure in the media.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.
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I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.
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The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.
