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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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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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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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.
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I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.
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I learned some big lessons on my first film, a horror film which was never released in the U.S., even though we sold it to Harvey Weinstein for a lot of money.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
