Fisher Stevens Quotes
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon'.
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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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I don't feel closeted.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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A girl's best friend is her pride.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.
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Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised-the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.
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I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.
