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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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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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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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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I always saw photography as a way to get to film.
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Paradise is to love many things with a passion.
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There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I've done every job under the sun, from busing tables, temping, and working in factories to SAT prep and detailing cars. So to be able to make a living where all I do is write is absolutely liberating.
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We live in a society where we basically live and strive on what people think about us. We’re more visual people so what we see is basically what we believe which is not necessarily true.
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I feel like, in a lot of ways, 'Hidden Figures' is the book that I wrote and have been waiting to read since I learned to read.
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In the first of these senses, neither Christ nor the Christian is supposed to be the world’s servant. Jesus is obedient, not to the world but to the Father. He is the servant of God, not of men, and we too are called to be servants of God.
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It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.