Luke Macfarlane Quotes
The thing about watching a show about the Iraq war, especially for an American audience, is that it reminds them they're responsible in some way.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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I am not honest.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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I don't mind Ryan Bader thinking he deserves a title shot.
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I didn't know how capable I was until the people around me in acting school would say I was good.
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The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.
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I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.
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In 2010, when the Lotus Sutra was made available to me by a private dealer, I was very fortunate to be able to have it. It is very long, 30 feet or something crazy like that. It has some 15,000 very small standard script characters that the artist Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan dynasty made when he was in his 60s.
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The thing about watching a show about the Iraq war, especially for an American audience, is that it reminds them they're responsible in some way.
