E. M. Forster Quotes
It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
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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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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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It was exactly what was released two months later with the exception of a couple of reaction shots which we went back in to get. I liked the movie very much and asked him what the studio's problem was. I felt that he was at a point where they might have worn him down.
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My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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The biggest test for any cricketer in England is the weather.
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Seeking the invisible through the imagery of the visible, the Americans never can get quite all the way to the end of the American dream.
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There is nothing wrong with good schmaltz, nothing wrong with good heart... The critics think I'm kind of corny. Well, I am corny. As long as people respond to it, I'm okay.
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I didn't even respect singers until I heard Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Louis Armstrong.
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I know better than anyone else that my time is near. I've had a good life, and you don't stop and complain at this stage of the game. I've made some mistakes, and I'd like to stay around a little longer and overcome them, but there isn't time. I'll miss baseball. That I know.
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Yes, I was mad at God because of the cancer diagnosis. I thought I should have been protected because of the work I do in the world.
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It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.
