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 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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And how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
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We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
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I’ve always liked working on stories that combine people who are relatable with something insane. … The most exciting thing for me is crossing that bridge between something we know is real and something that is extraordinary. The thing for me has always been how you cross that bridge.
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If you've never mixed paint, you aren't going to be able to paint properly.
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Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.
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I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.
