Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
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Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
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I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
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People trash talk me.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
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I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.
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I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
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All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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I am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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I am definitely going to college!
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You want to be greedy when others are fearful. You want to be fearful when others are greedy. It's that simple. … They're pretty fearful. In fact, in my adult lifetime, I don't think I've ever seen people as fearful economically as they are right now.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.
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In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered the exact same thing you just did. Which I find hilarious. I did 'The Vow,' and then I had every love story you can imagine thrown at me. And now I'm getting offers for comedies.
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The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.
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I didn't go to film school. I had been an actor in movies, I had been in plays, and then I just sort of jumped into it.
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Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.
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Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
