Michael Foot Quotes
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.
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My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.
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What do I love about acting? I love traveling, meeting new people, exploring and just doing what I love.
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I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
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I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
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The American television punditocracy - the pollsters, political consultants and other talking heads who become as ubiquitous as air every election cycle - can be incestuous and herdlike.
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I got history solidly under my belt, reading Russian history and biographies. I couldn't change the facts. I could only play with how the people might have responded to the facts of their lives.
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I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.
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There's certainly never a dull moment in the Stewart clan.
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For my wife and I, for so many years, a lot of our identity was based on being Hollywood haters. We were like, 'We're east-coast. We're New Yorkers. This is just a place that we have to come to, but not by choice.'
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When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.
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I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.
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And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.
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My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.
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There's something pretty awesome about staying with a character and growing.
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People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important.
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Design is Law
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I was always obsessed with being a writer of some sort.
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And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.
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Most liberties have been won by people who broke the law.
