Gary Oldman Quotes
Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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I think it's cool people love to hate me.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.
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I am interested in a lot of the same things people are interested in. I am trying to raise kids without them self-destructing. I am trying to hold the marriage together, and I am trying to take off the same 10 pounds everyone else is.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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I think anyone that isn't fired up right now shouldn't probably be out here.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.
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I did have wonderful things to draw from, from my own experience and also just from friends and people I'd gone to school with who were very much immersed in this world right now.
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I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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Culturally, politically, everywhere you look... Read the newspaper. Go online. Our world has gone to hell.
