Willem Dafoe Quotes
I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but that's not always true, just because of popular taste or any other reasons. When something doesn't do better than it deserves to in your mind, it's pretty transparent - you usually know why. Is that a comfort? Yes, because it's logical. Does it make you happy? No, because if you think a movie is beautiful or interesting, you want to share it. Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on whether it sells or not.
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I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how folks aspire to be like us.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.
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Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.
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When I first moved to L.A., I didn't have a lot of money to join a gym or take classes, so I improvised. My sister and I went to the library and looked over their DVD collection and discovered Neena and Veena, these Egyptian twins who have a whole series of belly dancing routines. We did them all.
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Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
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You know how it is to want something. Desire builds like a little house in your head and it sits there, half-constructed in your mind. Women who want children are this way. Artists are this way about pictures. It doesn't go away. You may forget for a few months but then it's back, the unfinished pieces of what you want.
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I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but that's not always true, just because of popular taste or any other reasons. When something doesn't do better than it deserves to in your mind, it's pretty transparent - you usually know why. Is that a comfort? Yes, because it's logical. Does it make you happy? No, because if you think a movie is beautiful or interesting, you want to share it. Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on whether it sells or not.
