Stephen Fincher Quotes
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My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
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After I started being able to grow a beard, I was obviously done at Disney - until I'm old enough to be a parent or an annoying older brother.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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I can never really enjoy being famous.
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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You've got to be able to take the bad events with the good ones. You've got to learn to deal with them and learn to take as much as you can from those. Have fun and put as much as you can into it. As long as you've done your best, that's all you can do.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I wouldn't have had any children.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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It is a very great mistake, common to counsel, and especially to young counsel, to consider that a decision of any court must necessarily command the respect of another.
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I really feel like we have drifted too far away from real America.
