Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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I'm a character actor.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
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If it's not hard, you're not dreaming big enough!
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I hope I'm not getting so famous that I can't think out load [sic] anymore.
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I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.
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I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me.
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I only want to tell films that I really feel passionate about telling.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
