Wolfgang Petersen Quotes
I always look for nature or natural lighting within buildings and within rooms that has been done by somebody else to suit their needs. I look at it very closely as a photographic thing, then enhance it.
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Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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The good thing about SUVs is they have storage.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.
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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.
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I never did steroids in my life. I know all the fighters; they are all on steroids.
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I am a sandwich man. Somewhere early in life, my epigenetic switches got flicked to 'likes sandwiches,' and that's where they still are. I suspect it's at least in part because they're easy to eat while reading.
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We monitor close to 50 companies globally that can be potential investment opportunities. I'd like to see DST as a significant global investment company in the Internet arena.
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Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.
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Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.
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God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.
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Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
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The effort must be total for the results to be meaningful.
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Patience wins the race.
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Journeys become very good metaphors. They always have the character put into circumstances that reveal him. If I had based my characters in New York and had them just sitting and thinking about life, it would be like what contemporary U.S. fiction is about. That is very heavy, literally, for me. It doesn't become mainstream enough because the pages don't turn themselves.
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I believe in things I can count on, like beer and ESPN and my grandmother's pecan pie.
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Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Music has always been my first love, so making music happen is a big priority of mine.
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I always look for nature or natural lighting within buildings and within rooms that has been done by somebody else to suit their needs. I look at it very closely as a photographic thing, then enhance it.
