Tony Goldwyn Quotes
One of the reasons that the African American actors wanted to be a part of the show was because these people are talking to each other the way that African American people talk to each other, and they said that they didn't see that on TV.
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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
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I love talking about myself.
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I never said I don't like gay people.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
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There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.
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One of the reasons I've gotten so attached to talking to scientists is that... they know there is a reality.
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I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.
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The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.
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I follow Elle Fanning's career. I really like to follow actors who are a similar age to me. Just to see what they're up to.
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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
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The Italians must allow us to slaughter the Momands, because, if we do not kill the warlike hillmen, they will kill us. And we must allow the Italians to slaughter the Danakils for the same reason.
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People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.
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Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.
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The general verdict among the German generals I interrogated in 1945 was that Field-Marshal von Manstein had proved the ablest commander in their Army, and the man they had most desired to become its Commander-in-Chief. It is very clear that he had a superb sense of operational possibilities and equal mastery in the conduct of operations, together with a greater grasp of the potentialities of mechanized forces than any other commander who had not been trained in the tank arm. In sum, he had military genius.
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I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy.
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I love 'Mad Men' & 'Nip Tuck.'
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One of the reasons that the African American actors wanted to be a part of the show was because these people are talking to each other the way that African American people talk to each other, and they said that they didn't see that on TV.
