Tate Donovan Quotes
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
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No one expected me to become a champion.
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I'm not sure specifically but there's definitely parts of me in Rikku.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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Being in water makes me relax instantly.
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I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me.
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My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
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Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
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I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
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To be honest, I don't even exactly know how to set up a Google alert. My brother has me on Google alert. So do my parents. But I'm not even sure how it works.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.
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The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
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I started playing video games, and in 1978 I discovered Dungeons & Dragons and started game-mastering and writing my own adventures and creating my own worlds.
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I am really excited and thankful for opportunity to work with Cotto Promotions, Tidal and Roc Nation.
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I can't run on treadmills; they drive me nuts.
