Gary Oldman Quotes
I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.
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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
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Urfa chillies are a Turkish variety that are mild on heat but big on aroma. They're sweet, smoky, a lovely dark red, and go with just about anything.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
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Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
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I don't want to be a director, or to have responsibility for hundreds of people.
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This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.
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An early attempt at education choice was charter schools. These were meant to attract the best and brightest students and provide them a level of education they often could not find in their local school districts. The problem is that, of the thousands of charter schools, many are outright failures.
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I wanted a doula because it's my first baby, and I want to be able to call her when I'm going into labor so she can come over and help us go through the early stage.
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An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.
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I'm still one of those persons who prefers to wear pants, especially for at-home entertaining.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
