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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Novels often have leisurely openings; a TV drama needs an arresting opening.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.
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I'm a weirdo. I don't leave the house unless I have to.
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I always dress scruffily, but at weekends I live in muddy Wellies.
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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.
