D. B. Sweeney Quotes
I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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We got to think of other ways to help these kids out because there's a lot of kids who get hurt in college and then don't make it to the NFL and don't have insurance, and their entire lives are changed when they put their bodies on the line for their school.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you've seen it before, and it's a new version of it.
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Many people are turned off at eating vegetarian because of the misconception that all dishes are just an arrangement of bland vegetables.
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I've scammed so many people throughout my whole life who never learned my true identity until I started acting.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
