Abraham Lincoln Quotes
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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The comic edge of 'Ghostbusters' will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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Good supporters who have single daughters say, 'Hey, you need to take my daughter out.' And it's awkward.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
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…the sudden rise of a religious movement in the West that restricts the eating of beef and thereby saves billions of tons of grain and provides a nourishing diet for the world as a whole.
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You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
