Victor Hugo Quotes
Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.
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It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.
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I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.
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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
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A man in debt is so far a slave.
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Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.
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It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
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The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
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To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.
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It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.
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From my point of view, why shouldn't I work in every possible mode, to see if it's viable? "Los Gigantes" would not have worked as a straightforward, naturalistic tale. Part of the fun of it is that it's so preposterous and yet at the same time, it could have happened. Think of eugenics. Hitler certainly would have been doing it if he could have.
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I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it; Never underestimate the heart of a champion.
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If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.
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You never want to be completely alone at what you do. Competition is good for everyone.
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In home life contentment is an essential to daily comfort. One discontented person in the house creates an atmosphere fatal to tranquillity.
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Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk.
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Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.
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Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
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Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.
