Bryce Dallas Howard Quotes
It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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I like the idea about somewhere there being a world... somewhere there's a world that I don't know about. But also, that somewhere, there was once something that disappeared.
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So, I'm happy to do that because it's a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that's the gamble I'm taking.
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In other words: we can fight pollution and poverty at the same time, with the same method. We can beat global warming and the global recession at the same time, with the same method. We can do this by putting people to work re-powering America with clean energy.
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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
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Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than you knew there was to know when young that it is moot whether you think you knew more then than now or less, or do you now know that you never knew anything at all and never will and only the bluster of youth persuaded you that you did or would?
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It's not that I'm a serious person; I'm playful and stuff like that, but I take characters very seriously and the work very seriously.
