Kyra Sedgwick Quotes
It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role.
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Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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I have got nothing against family companies, but there must be real equity, that is all I say. It cannot be based on influence or political friendships. It has to be based on real equity backing their dreams.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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We have to be about finding long-term solutions to our biggest challenges.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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I hesitate to talk about Czech food. ... The people are very sweet, wonderfully cultured, very friendly, but my God how they eat that food I do not know. It is surely the most disgusting cuisine in the world.
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When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.
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It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role.
