William Mortensen Quotes
Emotion may be expressed, or the utter lack of it may be expressed, but the only important fact is that of expression.
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How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.
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I've always wanted to work with Warren Beatty.
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The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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When I was kid, I remember playing 'Vogue' by Madonna over and over and over again. And ah, you know, something about the beat was really cool, and Madonna, visually, was on TV all the time and I thought she was just so beautiful.
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God is decisively drawn to the humble.
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The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.
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You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy.
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It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.
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There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
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When I was younger, I got bullied for wearing my hijab.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world.
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That's the great thing about being an actor, you know, you can just jump to different jobs.
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When there is a situation where one does not see demand for a year or two, then capex is suspended. It will reverse only when the situation improves.
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It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.
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Max Rose: Vo? What kind of name is that? Spader: What kind of name is Rose? Isn't that some kind of flower?
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It can be demonstrated from history that no society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated.
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Emotion may be expressed, or the utter lack of it may be expressed, but the only important fact is that of expression.
