John Corbett Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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We embrace the shoestring budget. We like being limited by the constraints. It inspires creativity. I don't know what we would spend money on. We don't hire actors. We see budget constraints as a personal challenge. We're like survivalist local commercial directors.
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'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.
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You have your bad moments in your career and your good moments. And it's been a good ride so far, but it's not over yet.
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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I get offered movies probably twice a month and they are just generally bad.
