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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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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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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I can understand the validity of showing people the ugliness of the world, but I also think there is a place for movies to leave people with a sense of hope.
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When it comes to fighting for citizenship that many people take for granted, there isn't anyone I would not talk to. When it comes to immigration, there isn't any question I will not answer.
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You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.
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Those who have a well-ordered character lead also a well-ordered life.
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I gained weight, and that started a 32-year struggle with weight and exercise and body image problems.
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I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage.
