Patrick Swayze Quotes
One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
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I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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I've built employee perks programs before and it's impossible to manually build a program that makes everyone happy. I'd make a deal with one gym then hear about another gym an employee would prefer. As a small business owner, I didn't have the time or leverage to negotiate and manage dozens of vendor relationships.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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In a Western, you talk more with your eyes and your actions than you do with big speeches. I love that.
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If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.
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As I was telling my husb- As I was telling President Bush.
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One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
