George Schaller Quotes
There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can never turn your back.
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.
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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.
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Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
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I would much rather be on the couch all the time. But it turns out, I'm also agreeable. I'll agree to do a lot of things.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
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I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
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You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?
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The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.
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My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.
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Don't ever second-guess a strong feeling that you have. Trust your gut.
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It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.
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I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write books that will draw readers away from their lives but send them back in a more awakened way.
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There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can never turn your back.
