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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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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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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My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can give myself time to tour or celebrate or write a film score.
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I've had a lot of mother figures. But by the time my mom came into my life, it wasn't a 'mommy' thing. It's more of an adult relationship.
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For good or bad, there is a certain level of generalisation when it comes to my work. I want to break that perception. My decision to direct 'Bombay Talkies' or to present 'The Lunchbox' is an attempt to do that. These are the films that gel well with my sensibility, and it's unfortunate, it's not the perception out there.
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I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on a journey to places even bleach can't reach.
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I think that books are fundamentally educational.
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We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.
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'And pray, what in sea language is meant by a ship?'
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The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.
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I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive.
