Tom Skerritt Quotes
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
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I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.
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It's hard to be serious in life.
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Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
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The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power.
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I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.
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What do I love about acting? I love traveling, meeting new people, exploring and just doing what I love.
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I am insecure. Everyone's insecure.
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They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
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I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody's trying to shock, I try not to. I just do stuff that's subtler, more emotional, and I think that shocks people.
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Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.
