Francisco Costa Quotes
I just hate people who are lazy. To be on my team, you have to have energy and a sense of wanting to learn. That really excites me.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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My children are my life. They're so spectacular.
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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
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In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.
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I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.
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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
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If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn't take more than three hours out of your day - there are other important things to do.
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The goal was always to do something that felt human but was 100 percent electronic.
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I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.
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I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.
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You can't bomb for a humane reason. What we should do is just Mother Teresa them to death with love. It's that old hippie nonsense but it's still the best stuff there is.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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I tell my son Corey that the greatest teacher is the teacher who says, 'Don't follow me; follow yourself. Because within you there is that kingdom, that life, that force.'
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I just hate people who are lazy. To be on my team, you have to have energy and a sense of wanting to learn. That really excites me.
