Walt Whitman Quotes
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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Time was God's first creation.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.
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People always ask, 'Was it fun? Was it fun working on a movie?' I don't know if that's the operative word. It is challenging and interesting and all those other things, but fun isn't always.
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Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.
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I've been insane from a very early age.
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There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
