Patrick Wilson Quotes
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Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.
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When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.
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For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect.
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
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Being in water makes me relax instantly.
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.
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It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies, character-driven stuff. I would love to do more theater on a larger scale. I'm just excited for the next thing that comes along that I'm salivating over. I think a little more guerrilla would be really exciting to me.
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I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
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If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
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Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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If I'm not going to get a part, tell me why.
