Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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War is death. If we are to engage in war, then we should have to stare it straight in the face and call it by its rightful name.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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I spent ten years riding motorcycles.
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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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I don't believe in it, because you're not around to know that it's happened. I can't say anything about it because I'm not prepared for it.
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I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.
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I would rather be on a roller coaster life going through hell and back to appreciate the glory instead of having it all at once.
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That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.
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Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves you is at the very personal, childish level of the imagination. My business is the imagination, and my imagination is engaged by Asia.
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War is the business of barbarians.
