William Wilberforce Quotes
This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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I don't weigh. I don't weigh in at all.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.
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You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.
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I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.
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Our job as actors is to invent the things that bridge ourselves with the characters, so you have to build something if it's not there - you try and learn what makes people behave in a certain way.
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I love everything about you that hurts.
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The life of this transitory world is the expectation of death: to renounce life is to escape from the expectation of annihilation.
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Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.
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This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!
