Sean Durkin Quotes
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm.
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Jews have a tendency to become comedians.
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Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.
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I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
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I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
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To me, torture would be watching sports on television.
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How is it that we can militarily overthrow a military government like Iraq, yet we can't militarily keep illegalities (drugs and aliens) from crossing our borders?
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If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.
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This is not a movie about smelling the urine! It's another kind of movie." Volker Schlöndorff got Billy Wilder to agree to these conversations - you can buy it - because Volker spoke German at times. And he said to Billy Wilder: "What is in your mind?" And he said: "If you're going to try to tell the truth to the audience, you'd better be funny or they'll kill you." And I haven't forgotten that.
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I don't think I've ever read an old book through from start to finish. Not after more than six months after writing it, that is.
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I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.