Fisher Stevens Quotes
Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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Now, here's a good question: should serious people focus on global political instability - terrorism, failing states, nuclear weapons - or should we focus on global climate instability - droughts, floods, extreme weather? Here's the correct answer: yes, both, because climate disruption will make every other national security problem worse.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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I find a way to convince people to come along with me. They want to be persuaded. When I sit in a room with you I'm going to sell you something whether you want it or not. At the end you'll say: 'I'm glad I bought that.'
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
