Fidel Castro Quotes
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Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
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The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke that their discipline advances one funeral at a time, but many fields must wait for wholesale generational turnover before new approaches take hold.
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I went to Mexico because it has a magic that does not have any other country in the world, but I insist, do not think it was vini, vidi e vinci. There were many years of fight, because Mexico is a very unsociable country.
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If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.
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I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
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I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.
