Vincent D'Onofrio Quotes
Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.
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The way that I look at it is that, when we film for eight months straight for a new 'Jackass' movie, I know that I'm going to wind up with at least two broken bones. I don't know when it's going to happen, but you can't contemplate how you're going to fall and what's going to happen.
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Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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If Trump's talking to Putin can help end the bloodshed in Ukraine or Syria, it would appear to be at least as ethical an act as pulpiteering about our moral superiority on the Sunday talk shows.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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I've always understood that, as a woman and as a person of color, I would always have to work harder; I would have to have thicker skin. I would have to be more mindful of my reactions, the way I spoke to people.
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It is a very easy thing to devise good laws; the difficulty is to make them effective. The great mistake is that of looking upon men as virtuous, or thinking that they can be made so by laws; and consequently the greatest art of a politician is to render vices serviceable to the cause of virtue.
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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
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People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much.
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
