Tom Berenger Quotes
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The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.
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I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.
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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
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I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies – the ecstacies of awe and reverence – in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.
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I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.
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I think self-love isn't some destination you get to and you are then incapable of feeling those feelings, but a journey in which you adapt your experiences to make for a happier life.
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Ray Santos is one of my personal heroes. I model my life on people like him.
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To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.
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When you start photographing somebody, it's like a lustful relationship and there's all the excitement of new flesh.
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You can't take on the qualities of a character that you'd never be cast in - and no one would ever cast you in.
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Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I'm going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance.
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Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough.
