Barry Pepper Quotes
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I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.
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I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
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My goal in life was to pursue the good life.
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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Nothing escapes God's knowledge. This is proved by the witness of the Scriptures and the analogy of the sun, which, although created, yet by its light or heat enters into all things.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
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The comment that probably caught everyone off guard is 'We don't see a rebound anytime soon.'
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Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
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Im glad I have an outlet. I dont think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world.
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John Cheever was the first writer I ever read who sort of had that similar sensation that, you know, life is nasty, miserable, brutish and short, but that occasionally, there's a certain river of light, a kind word, a telling gesture that sort of illuminates something.
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Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
