Willem Dafoe Quotes
I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
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I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
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Change is hard but inevitable.
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With my boyfriend, we can make sexist jokes to each other because we know it's absolutely not true. If I get home from a long day and he says: 'Go on, get in the kitchen,' it's funny because we know it's not our lives.
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One of the things that happens at the speed of light is that people lose their goals in life. So what takes the place of goals and objectives? Well, role-playing is coming in very fast.
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One of my earliest memories, movie-related or otherwise, is of seeing a man dunking a man's head in a toilet on television, and my mom telling me that this is what would happen to me if I ever joined the Army. It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I would discover that this was a scene from 'The Great Santini,' starring Robert Duvall.
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I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.
