Vin Diesel Quotes
It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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I think a woman looks best in a sari.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
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The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.
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I really love the TV thing because it's a little of the best of all worlds. You have a sense of a family and work with the same people over the seasons.
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I like to talk to people and, obviously, to photograph them.
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It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?
