Stephen Sprouse Quotes
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I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
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I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China.
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Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.
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When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.
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I can be an emotional eater. Of late, I have been doing that, yes. It started when I was very little. My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.
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Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.
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...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental.
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Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!
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I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
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Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.
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Philosophers, especially metaphysicians, explore features of reality and of our mental life that are different from those explored by scientists.
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Milton Friedman had the grace and good sense to recognize that he wanted to talk to the general public. He wasn't going to just lecture to the people who happened to appear in his classroom in Chicago or on some lecture circuit. He went out to talk to the general public, believing that you had to convince a democratic nation to change its ways, and he succeeded to a considerable extent.
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No man can avail himself of the forces of his creative imagination, while dissipating them.
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You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.
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I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.
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I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections.
