Willem Dafoe Quotes
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During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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I know I'm happy and can't wait to see where my career will go next. This isn't the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.
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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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I watched the first people walk on the moon, and to me, it was just an obvious thing - I want to somehow turn myself into that. But the real question is, how do you deal with the danger of it and the fear that comes from it? How do you deal with fear versus danger?
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It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.
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People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.
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There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
