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 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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Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if I'm nervous before going on stage, but that's natural to many performers. If I think it's going to be a problem, I just reach for my inhaler.
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I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and there's got to be some faith by the studio and network in those people to make the right choices.
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!
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It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.
