Cary Elwes (Ivan Simon Cary Elwes) Quotes
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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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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
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I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.
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If your mind is still, you're the happiest.
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I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it.
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If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.
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I'm still driven by the feeling I had when I wrote my first book or read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle adventure.
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The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
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Beauty is a whore.
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The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
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Each for himself is still the ruleWe learn it when we go to school-The devil take the hindmost, O!
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I've been doing comedy since I was two. You know, kids who make other kids laugh. The sickness had set in! I could make my friends' parents laugh; I had a sense of what was silly and funny.
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I'm always pretty nervous when I do anything! I walk very slowly. I'm very careful.
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I don't talk about my personal life in the press; that's how I kept my wedding a secret.
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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Friendship is a priceless gift, that cannot be bought or sold. But it's value is far greater than a mountain made of gold. For gold is cold and lifeless, it can neither see nor hear. And in time of trouble, it is powerless to cheer. So when you ask God for a gift, be thankful if he sends not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.
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I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
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I think we were naive during the first two years of the [Barack] Obama Administration because the Republicans didn't fight us on this point during the 2008 Presidential Election. Obama and McCain both ran on a clean energy platform. But now, uncontested lies have eroded hard-won public understanding. So, we have to go back and make the case again.
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We are men of action. Lies do not become us.
