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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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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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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In a time where there are divides between cultures and races, I would love to use my position to show that we are all the same inside and working together is the key to moving forward.
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The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we are not creating an unbalanced grant portfolio.
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There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.
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Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
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As an actor timing is important, especially as a mother with small children, so a lot is chance.
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Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.
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I can count on one hand the directors who actually directed me.
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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.
