Lasse Hallstrom Quotes
I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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Comedians paint ourselves into corners all the time, and tastes in comedy change. The guy in 'The Hangover' was a really fun character to do, and it was easy to do. But you have to find other things because audiences will let you do that for a little bit, and then they're like, 'What else do you have for us, monkey?'
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I always encourage over-tipping if you can afford it because... share the wealth.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.
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I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.
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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
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I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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People ended up not thinking much of me. They saw me as a bit of a troublemaker. It's important to change people's impressions.
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Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.
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The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
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I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
