Stuart Townsend (Stuart Peter Townsend) Quotes
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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At one point, we were across the street from the Sharon Tate house; at another, we lived in Elvis's old Bel Air bachelor pad. It was where he first met the Beatles.
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Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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I know of no country in the world that has passed a law specifically denying a woman's right to choose where she intends to give birth.
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I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood.
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When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
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Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.
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I'm losing Savanna.That's good. No one should own someone else.
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I know the Americans are inherently disposed against us, but when they talk with us, they will see that I am not the kind of person who would shoot nuclear weapons to the south, over the Pacific or at the United States.
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Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.
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I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
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I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.
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New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.
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There's an issue with the Medicare doctor reimbursement rates where at the end of the year every doctor that folks in this country use that provide Medicare services is going to get a 30 percent salary cut.
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I have my family, which is my main thing; the organization; a modeling career. All these things are important, but family definitely comes first.
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It's not really possible to open 'The Casual Vacancy' without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There's no point pretending they're not there.
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One time they traded me for seven horses. Seven stunt horses.
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I think one of the secrets to modelling is the less you care and the more you're yourself, the more successful you are.
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If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
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The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
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I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.
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What's the trick to writing a good bad guy? Well, for me, it's always been the idea that you pit yourself against authority, you know? I think that's what it takes - and then you can write villainous characters.
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Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.
