Joel Kinnaman Quotes
Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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I'm pleased the committee recommended no action, as I know I did nothing wrong.
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I have a B.S. in Biology from MIT, an M.Sc. in Human Biology and a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Oxford University, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. I never intended for so many degrees, but I enjoyed getting them all.
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I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
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Feeling earthquakes was part of growing up, and also preparing for them: doing earthquake drills, or having earthquake supplies. The looming feeling was part of my life. My experience of earthquakes has always been more the fear of them, or the possibility.
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The poet is a god, or, the young poet is a god. The old poet is a tramp.
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One of my first jobs was on a lesbian cruise. I was the ship comedian for the Lesbian Love Boat.
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
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I love sweets. I have a tendency to go out at, like, 11 P.M. and get a giant piece of cake because I'm craving it. The problem is if you eat a big piece of cake that late, you wake up in the morning feeling really sick.
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I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.
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I really want women to appreciate their power. It was obvious to me that lots of people are comfortable with power, and they see what it can do, but women's expression of it was never as comprehensive as it could be. It seemed like an amazing gift that Oxygen could give.
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I went from broke and homeless sleeping on couches. Couldn't even figure out what I was doing in Los Angeles. Now, I'm paying my own bills. I'm about to move my mama in with me at 19. I'm on tour now, and this is all off of one mixtape.
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If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.
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I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.
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Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure.
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Mid-range to low-budget movies have to have a name in the lead to get financing for it.
