Geoffrey S. Fletcher Quotes
The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.
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Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.
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Knowing constitutional law helps one at the opera. The trial in 'Billy Budd,' as example, invokes the fugitive slave clause of the U.S. Constitution.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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For 'A Little Night Music,' I did try to get little bit more beefed up for that because I thought that would help me carry myself around the stage in that character.
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Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.
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I worked at a hospital parking cars and getting folks in and out of the hospital as they would come in for their appointments.
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Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.
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Mainly it's the parents who remember me. But the kids today, what they do is go and Google you. A lot of them turn up and they know everything about me. They say: 'You scored 346 goals' or 'You wore the No9 shirt for Liverpool.'
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All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
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No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.
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I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.
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Some players get over-dependable on their coaches.
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I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.
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If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
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When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver.
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Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic.
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Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase - everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood...
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Madeline Kahn is one of my favourite people in the entire world and one of the funniest. She was a talented Broadway star and also sang opera.
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The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.
