George Tenet Quotes
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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The longer you're on a show like 'SNL,' the less frequent the Google alerts become.
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I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'
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When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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Death, only, renders hope futile.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.
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I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'
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Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace.
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Equal pay for equal work continues to be seen as applying to equal pay for men and women in the same occupation, while the larger point of continuing relevance in our day is that some occupations have depressed wages because women are the chief employee. The former is a pattern of sex discrimination, the latter of institutionalized sexism.
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We were lucky to get Sam Jackson and Jeremy Irons and John McTiernan back. Long movie and hard movie to make and difficult for me because instead of working, my biggest concern was not repeating things I had done it in the previous films. And it rang notes in my head of episodic TV. A sequel is not a new movie; it's a chapter in a movie that you have already seen. Thank god Sam was there and thank god Jeremy was there. Again, it went outside the template of that series of films but it did well and made a ton of dough and the third chapter of a lot of sequels is always the one that falls down.
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You deserve better from your entire government, all of us.
