George C. Scott Quotes
But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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I loved Alessandra Torre's 'Black Lies.'
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
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I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
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If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.
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When former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote his recent book, 'Duty', it was full of tough assessments and candor.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.
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I think only the movies you do remember are the films you had an emotional connection to.
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I listen to podcasts when I run because it means my mind still gets stimulated by something else.
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But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.
