Gary Oldman Quotes
People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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I never understood why anyone would do magazines. Like, why would someone put their face out there so much? It's because those people reading magazines will go see the movie, so you do it.
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Every single person you can think of called me Paper Boi.
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As an elected official who comes from the African-American community, there are some similarities. You are always trying to reconcile your own personal biography and affiliations with the demands of the broader democracy. And you need to make sure you are representing everybody.
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I tend to over-intellectualize things, to come at them from a structural point.
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My mum loves cats so I took her to see the lion cubs which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn't scared at all and went straight over and kissed one on the mouth! She thought they were just like her pets at home.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
