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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Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you.
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When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.
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No matter how brilliant an actor is, there's always a point where they let you down, but that's all part of their journey. They might be trying something they need to explore.
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I'm interested in Russian language, culture, history... and I lived there, for four years, as a reporter for the Washington Post and have visited many times since.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
