John Dryden Quotes
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When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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I had been very focused on the issue of education disparities in our country, and literally, by the time kids are just nine years old, in low-income communities, they're already three or four grade levels behind nine-year-olds in high-income communities.
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The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.
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In domestic life, the woman's value is inherent, unquantifiable; at home she exchanges proven values for mythological ones. She 'wants' to be at home, and because she is a woman, she's allowed to want it. This desire is her mystique, it is both what enables her to domesticate herself and what disempowers her.
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When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.
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Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.
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There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up around the dinner table, for sure. We didn't grow up in a creative family.
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An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
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There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of the day is spent at school. As parents, we try to teach our kids to be respectful to others and teach them old values, but a lot of it is down to the schools.
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What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.
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If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
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If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.
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Boarding school was a really pivotal moment. Before I went there, I was so happy. I'm not sure I was ready for it. I was only 13. My parents didn't send me away; it was my choice as well. But I definitely shouldn't have stayed for five years.
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When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you're bound to get a few wrinkles.
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Once you privatize something, it becomes a for-profit business.
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What else is nature but God?
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Madam me no madam.
