Owen Wister Quotes
It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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When I was really young, I wanted to grow up and be the sun. Which shows an early penchant for ambition or narcissism or grandiosity or delusion - all of which are bellwethers for becoming a writer.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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The Tax Division is committed to prosecuting accountants who assist their clients in fraudulent tax schemes.
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I was planning to study more, but it's a struggle with so many opportunities for film and trying to get better through studying. No matter what, I want to be making more movies.
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People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
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As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
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I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.
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I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.
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All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.
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Economics takes a while to learn, even if much of it is in a way quite simple. It is simple to be wrong as well as to be right, and it is none too easy to distinguish between them.
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Fatigue is the safest sleeping draught.
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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
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We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.
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Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.
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It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.
