Michel Foucault Quotes
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.
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When parents tell their children not to congregate on corners, especially in groups, out of fear for them encountering the police, what does that say? We have a trust problem.
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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
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A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.
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I want to re-mythologize 'The Green Hornet' in a contemporary context, with an emphasis on story and character, while at the same time incorporating themes that speak to my heart.
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A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
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If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
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I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
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Typically, I work with the script and the director for awhile before, just to make sure we're on the same page.
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I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.
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I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
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Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.
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Gin the goodwife stintand the bairns hungerthe Duke can get his rentone year longer.
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The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.
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You can violate the law. The banks may violate the law and be sustained in doing so. But the President of the United States cannot violate the law.
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Madam me no madam.
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The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
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I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility.
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Our society is not one of spectacle but of surveillance.
