Tommy Lee Jones Quotes
As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much. But I've been with women over the years when my weight fluctuated, and they're definitely more interested physically when I am in really great shape.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.
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Iggy Pop is God, if God looked half that good with his shirt off.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.
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The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
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I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
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I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
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Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my 'hood, and people leave me alone; it's nice.
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I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.
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The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.
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Classical music can rock you!
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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else.
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'Do you get tired, singing?' she asked.Gan Itai laughed quietly. 'Does a mother grow tired raising her children? Of course, but it is what I do.'
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As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.
