Willem Dafoe Quotes
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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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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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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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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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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
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Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
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My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
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What I find very interesting is, we're not enthralled by the ancient world, and we've escaped all kinds of ancient preconceptions and assumptions and prejudices. But, nevertheless, we still make that connection between authoritative speech and male speech.
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I've gotten into doing electronic books and audiobooks, so I have an iPad. I still love reading a real book, but when you travel, it's better than carrying around a bunch of books.
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I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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I never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me.
