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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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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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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When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali on the way through.
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Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?
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The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
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I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'
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When physical genocide ran its course, cultural genocide followed, reflected in the “compassionate” counsel of Captain Richard Henry Pratt: “A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one. In a sense, I agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man.
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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.
