Anson Mount Quotes
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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It's different for every project. Some parts are quicker than others to get and know; sometimes right up until the last moment you're just praying that something will click. But you can only do a certain amount of work and then at some point you've got to think: 'OK, I'm just going to have to leap now.'
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
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I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I'm sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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As long as offices are open to all men and no constitutional rank is established, it is pure republicanism.
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When I had kids, I had to work out how to keep my stamina up. I learned the power of protein and eating a variety of foods.
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Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world
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Every day is work for me, but it's also a party. I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
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Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest.
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I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible.
