Anthony Hopkins Quotes
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in.
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By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
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If you're you, it doesn't matter if you're the most boring person in the world: someone will like you. You're not trying to be anyone else.
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Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.
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I'm the slowest driver in the world.
