Eva Mendes Quotes
Anchorman' is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite characters of all time. It's my 'Gone With the Wind.
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The difference between working with actors that have put their time in the theater and just straight film and television actors is that you trust theater actors a lot more. You know that they're seriously more trained than anyone else because theater is the best place to grow as an actor.
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Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.
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The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up.
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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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I was mainly raised by a working mum who didn't have much time or inclination for making food. So I had three or four basic meals: fish fingers and a tomato; a packet scotch egg and a tomato; pasta with a tin of tomatoes; and extra mild plastic-y cheddar chopped into cubes with bits of cucumber.
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.
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The only time I even entertain the tiniest element of religion is for Christmas carols.
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As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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I have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012.
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It's the best fifth place I've ever had.
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The way to write really good songs is to write about the things that happen in your life and where you are in the moment, and writing about stuff that happens in your 30s is not the sexiest song subject.
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There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.
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One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.
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With the first money I got, I built my parents a house back home, gave them a string of credit cards, and said 'Go.'
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I think book adaptations, the best one to me is like 'Brokeback Mountain.' Which is a short story, 21 pages, that expands so beautifully into a movie.
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Anchorman' is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite characters of all time. It's my 'Gone With the Wind.
