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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Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.
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In a way, the debate about Margaret Thatcher in Britain has just gotten fossilized in this notion that she is either this she-devil who wrecked the industrial base of the country and ruined the lives of millions, or she is the blessed Margaret who saved the nation and rescued us from our post-war decline.
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Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
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On Christmas Eve, we have a duck or roast pork with caramelised potatoes, braised red cabbage and gravy. For dessert, we have ris a l'amande, a rice pudding, and whoever gets the whole almond in it wins an extra present. Then we dance around the tree and sing carols.
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Two sets of railways will be laid so nearly level as not in any place to deviate more than two degrees from a horizontal line, made of wood or iron, on smooth paths of broken stone or gravel, with a rail to guide the carriages so that they may pass each other in different directions and travel by night as well as by day; and the passengers will sleep in these stages as comfortably as they do now in steam stage-boats.
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I can assure you that my first and foremost interest is my country.
