Willem Dafoe Quotes
I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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I realized, 'Oh, it's easier to get what I want if I embrace the sex symbol thing.' Microphones are more in my face, and I can say things about the kids that I mentor and open more access to more doors.
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I want to make smart choices.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
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If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
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I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it.
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I know that I have probably an eight- to 10-year window in this league, and if I want to be what I say I want to be, then I have to commit myself 100 percent.
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I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.
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You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner - and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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My own fashion sense has been influenced by 'We'll Take Manhattan.' It's gotten a little better.
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One of the outcomes of a Spirit-filled life is a new illumination to understand God's Word.
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If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.
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I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.
