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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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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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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You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
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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 still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.
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If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ionizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.
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Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.
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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.
