Willem Dafoe Quotes
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
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The history of capitalism has been so totally re-written that many people in the rich world do not perceive the historical double standards involved in recommending free trade and free market to developing countries.
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There was a sense of all the things that go on on the street, particularly in New York, that you are just completely unaware of, that that conversation could be happening at any time. I loved the instability of the camera. It's just an unstable world.
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I went to USC film school, briefly, which is a very traditional film school.
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You move an organization when they understand where you want them to go.
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I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.
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It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.
