Willem Dafoe Quotes
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.
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It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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Being a known person is pretty much all I've known. I don't remember much of a time when people didn't know who I was.
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My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.
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We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
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I never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me.
