Alex Graves Quotes
You pull anyone from an alien planet down to Earth, and you want to show them great work, show them Tywin Lannister on 'Game of Thrones.' I mean, it's just as good as it gets.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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People trash talk me.
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Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed Prince Charles in 1981.
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A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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When I'm making a movie, I never watch the dailies. I see the movie once and that's it. It's really not about that for me. It's not about the externals. When I'm on a set, I don't want to see it. I want to be subjective in it. That's my habit now.
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When all is said and done, science actually takes hard work and a willingness to sometimes find out that your most cherished hypothesis is wrong.
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Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.
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You pull anyone from an alien planet down to Earth, and you want to show them great work, show them Tywin Lannister on 'Game of Thrones.' I mean, it's just as good as it gets.
