Alexander Pope Quotes
Thou Great First Cause, least understood Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good And that myself am blind.
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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I always knew where I was going eventually, so it helped me to stay at home for three years. It helped me to develop my game. But it also helped me off the ice. Life here is way different, and I was able to get older.
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I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.
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I keep on 5 to 10 pounds above my jeans weight, as the ultimate no-filler-needed refresher, and buy a size up on jeans.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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Golf would be my ticket somewhere, I told myself. I just couldn't say where it would lead me.
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I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.
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I'd had 12 different job titles in publishing before I typed 'The End' at the bottom of a manuscript page. I thought the manuscript was in great shape; I was pretty proud of myself. Then I sent it to some publishing friends, and they tore it apart.
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I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me.
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Thou Great First Cause, least understood Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good And that myself am blind.
