Gene Hackman Quotes
I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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God is much greater than anything we can imagine.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.
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It's a character-builder to be a fan of the Chicago Cubs.
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Passion is the fuel.
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You have to pace yourself. As a producer, you start with a concept and shepherd it through the script to the delivery of the film. It's a very long journey for an hour and 40 minutes of movie.
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The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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These characters, they have to evolve. They're getting older on the show, these are things that happen in everyone's life. People do get married... this is just a natural evolution. I wonder if we'll have 'Big Bang' babies in the season finale?
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I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.
