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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However, big that risk was, it was outweighed by the risk of the government's message becoming drowned out or undermined by her staying in office.
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There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.
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I feel it is obvious when someone has thought too much about what they're wearing.
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It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.
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I'm praying for 'Ice Age' 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Because I really think we can run those characters into the '60s, and I'm talking the 1960s, you know? The Civil Rights Movement. That's what I'm praying for, because then I wouldn't have to do anything else.
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My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.
