Paul Hogan Quotes
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living in the woods off-grid, but they're spending all their time maintaining that, and they don't have much time left over for anything else.
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I want my weekends off and I want to put my kids to bed. Those are good reasons to want to be in 'Batman 2'.
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As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.
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I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.
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No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
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I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.
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Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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Barry Levinson saw me on a tape and put me in 'Rain Man' as the waitress who dropped the toothpicks. The scene was talked about a lot. Then, all of a sudden, I started to get more auditions.
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New York is the coolest city. The place just never sleeps. It's amazing.
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Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
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When I was younger, the idea of the bad boy was appealing, but then I grew up and realized that stable people are more fulfilling. Bad boys need more time to themselves. I want to be in a relationship with someone who knows how to take care of himself and is therefore able to take care of me. That way, we can put each other first.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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'Crocodile Dundee' is about people; it's 10 seconds about crocodiles.
