Joel Coen Quotes
I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out.
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When you really start figuring things out as a quarterback, you realize you don't have to be perfect every time, but you do have to be quick and decisive.
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I have played cricket on my own terms.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
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Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
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Stealing bases is just something I like to do. I figure if I can hit home runs and steal bases, I'd be different than everybody else.
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Love stories thrive on hope.
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Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.
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You don't start shooting rockets at Israel and expect that we'll just sit back supinely and die.
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I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.
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I think each person you play has a little bit of you in it - you can't really help that.
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To be honest, I've never been interested in how many games I've done and seen. It doesn't mean anything to anybody. All I know is I'm eternally grateful for having been allowed to work so many games.
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However disagreeable a situation is to you, you cannot get rid of it by indignation.
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It didn’t matter that they were terrible at being parents; they were also very rich, which meant they could pay other people to love Alec.
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I don't know a soul who doesn't maintain two separate lists of doctrines - the ones that they believe that they believe; and the ones that they actually try to live by.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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This is one of those rare times when the national consensus demands us to act, ... But it does not require us to rush to judgement, to risk compounding the situation by stampeding toward what sounds like the best way to score points against each other.
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The parts of a film should be in proportion to the whole, and a long film pasted together out of quick little scenes makes me dizzy.
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People ask me how I sang the role of the 'Phantom' 1,700 times. And I say that it's down to good material. If it did not have good material, I would have had a major problem doing it for that length of time.
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I always admired Stanley Kubrick for the fact that he managed to beat the system somehow. I think he kind of had it all figured out.
