Gene Green Quotes
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In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.
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I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.
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Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write – I find it gets in the way.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
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I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.
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I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.
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Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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Fame is a very strange animal.
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I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.
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I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.
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It's a great opportunity when one gets something new to grasp, and I feel we should just grab it.
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I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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I wish I was one of those persnickety types who buys guidebooks and studies them, but I don't have the inclination or time. I'm more of a 'get on the plane, arrive at the destination and see what happens' kind of traveler.
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National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
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There will be times when you just can't seem to land an acting job, and you feel like giving up. Don't! The only way to realise that dream is to keep working hard for it.
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Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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The main reason I'm in this sport is not to run mouths and make posts on Twitter and stuff. It's to compete.
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This writing distinctly about the kite seems to be my destiny, because among the first recollections of my infancy, it seemed to me that, as I was in my cradle, a kite came to me and opened my mouth with its tail, and struck me several times with its tail inside my lips.
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Alternative energy will make us less dependent on foreign oil. It would make us more secure in our future. It would mean that our foreign policy could be a reflection of our values and our other interests, and not just that.
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We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.
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I do have a lot of alumni in Washington.
