Eudora Welty Quotes
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Playing different characters in different films helps keep you excited about what you do. It always seems like a whole new adventure.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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Let me tell you that I love the United States.
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Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
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I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
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Imagine stepping into the shoes of Roberto Duran, one of the most legendary boxers in the history of the sport, and definitely the most legendary Latin American boxer, and then having 'Raging Bull' in my corner. I mean, imagine that? Just having Robert De Niro to play the trainer in the movie, that was fantastic.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
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I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.
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The president said some words, like nouns and verbs. 15
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I would love to be on 'Glee,' thus furthering the myth that I'm a gay man.
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I hate art auctions.
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The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.
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I think I'm generally an upbeat person. Obviously I can get moody, but my whole philosophy is to try and have a good time.
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The Republicans always do a good job of dividing and conquering. They do a really good job of making black folks, poor white folks, and Hispanics not like each other.
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I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.
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I love a good fitted suit. England is known for men who can wear good suits.
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The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on Earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.
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I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.
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I have in the past acquired a reputation for concocting non-existent writers and unwritten volumes.
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To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.
