Tate Donovan Quotes
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When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.
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If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.
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I have learned to be patient.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.
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I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.
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I believe women are the glue of everything.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
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I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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The three traits speculators must learn to manage within themselves are confidence, fear, and aggressiveness.
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We need to take a step back and realize that what happened in the 1950s, when he started his career, is exactly where we are today. Everything goes in a cycle, and right now, distribution is changing. Audiences might be kind of sick of these giant blockbuster movies with all these special effects where blue people are running around and the hero is some non-human entity. These are all great movies, but I think that there's definitely room for new voices to come out.
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I was born in a mining village, and you either played football or played football. If you didn't play, there was something wrong with you.
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I love running and I will always run.
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Writing novels is largely about endurance and patience. I take a lot of breaks, hit walls, and go do something else while I think things through. But I do it every day, and I try to treat it as a job, something that is not dictated by whimsy or muses.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
