Gene Green Quotes
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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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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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I eat like a normal 6-year-old, but if you look at the mortality statistics, I mean, 6-year-olds don’t die very often. 'Part 2 - Billionaire Warren Buffett says GOP health reform bills are relief for the rich' PBS Newshour (27 June 2017)
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Perhaps the mere idea of receiving a nasty missive will allow animal researchers to empathize with their victims for the first time in their lousy careers. I find it small wonder that the laboratories aren’t all burning to the ground. If I had more guts, I’d light a match.
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The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.
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One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old "sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me."
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New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.
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You can't just have a clean public space - you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.
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I think every actor should direct at least once and vice versa.
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I do have a lot of alumni in Washington.
