Gene Hackman Quotes
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Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.
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Treat your friends as you do your best pictures, and place them in their best light.
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It's constantly fascinating for me that something that feels absolutely right one year, 12 months later feels like the wrong thing to do.
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I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.
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The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.
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It's like, I don't think you understand, Michael Jackson's bedroom is two stories and it has, like, three bathrooms and this and that. So, when I slept in his bedroom, yes, but you understand the whole scenario.
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Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.
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We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.
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When I was a boy, I wanted to be a Ninja. Now I am a man, now I am a Ninja.
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One cannot deny the great role women have played in the world community. My flight was yet another impetus to continue this female contribution.
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The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
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I never really do the New Year's Resolution thing. I kind of just try to stay focused, not get too distracted, and do the best I can. And that's something I like to tell myself every year around New Year's.
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Mr. President, there comes to a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now. And I will not let the PATRIOT Act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged.
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Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun.
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Whenever anybody that I trusted brought along some new chemical, I would open my mouth and off I'd go.
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It's human desire to be understood. And we always feel we're not understood.
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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
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I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants.
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My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.
