Anthony Hopkins Quotes
I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
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For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke might be by how many times it gets retweeted, but it takes discipline to go back through the tweets and then develop jokes from them.
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It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.
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I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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Writing is a very intimate thing, especially when you write lyrics and sing them in front of someone for the first time. It's like a really embarrassing situation. To me, singing is almost like crying, and you have to really know someone before you can start crying in front of them.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
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I actually interviewed other people about myself, and that alerted me to the fact that I had to really investigate my memories.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.
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For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
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If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.
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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
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It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.
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When we are younger, we say a lot of things without often believing in them. The thoughts within you are much more important, and so often, one can't completely describe what one feels. As we grow older, we realize that there is more to love than what is expressed in the conventional sense of the terms.
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Looking for love is tricky business, like whipping a carousel horse.
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I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick!
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Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.
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I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.
