Liev Schreiber Quotes
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My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
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The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
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Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.
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I grew up with an abundance of things from our garden, so fried food was not enjoyable.
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Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
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I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.
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Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.
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I feel very passionately that we need to take care of the planet and everything on it. Whether it's saving the Amazon or just being kind to those around you, we need to take care of each other and Mother Earth.
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'Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.
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I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.
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One should go to the line through the character. You should see their lifestyle in the way they speak.
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A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'
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In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.
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The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
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While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.
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Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one.
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There are people that go ahead, that see problems before the rest, that take decisions before the rest.
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I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of other religions as well.
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I approach things from my feeling first. I have to get a feel for the character. I'll do that through music; I'll do it through what is naturally popping up for me when I read the script. My ideas or whatever the occupation of the character might be.
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My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!
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Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.
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The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.
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I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.
