Kevin Costner Quotes
When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don't live.
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I'm here to say all lives matter.
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I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.
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The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
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In the U.K. we have the best geography teachers in the world.
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If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.
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I love to crunch numbers. I look at how many fairways I hit, how many greens I hit. I plan my way around the golf course.
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When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don't live.
