Nicholas Meyer Quotes
Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
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Interior design is a business of trust.
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The idea that corporations have the same First Amendment protections of free speech as people is troubling. Corporations are not people. They don't attend our schools, get married and have children. They don't vote in our elections.
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RFK was a compelling figure because he was willing to challenge his audiences, and in turn connect with them in a unique way. Kennedy showed that our values define us and can inspire others to believe in the possibility of change and a better society.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.
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I can hold my breath for 7 minutes and 5 seconds.
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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I'm a very proud actor.
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I want to come and play in cities and states where transgender citizens are not discriminated against, where there's no hateful bathroom bills at the shows where I'm going to be playing.
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Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.
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I don't like to talk about myself.
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Georgia O'Keeffe proposed that I live with her. She was in New Mexico then, and I wanted to be in New York.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.
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I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.
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As Barbara Streisand discovered, adopting a militaristic posture against a tech-savvy mob of civil libertarians is not going to be of much help: Many of them run their own servers and blogs - and have thousands of friends on their social networks - so overzealous attempts to silence them only lead to wider dissemination of sensitive information.
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Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.
