Kevin Costner Quotes
I think one of the first things to go as people's lives start to go down is their dreams. Dreams should be the last thing to go - dreams are the things you go down with. If you're left clinging to a piece of driftwood in the middle of the ocean, I'd put on it the word dreams.
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
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There's just a natural instinct to want to be great, I think.
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
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I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.
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My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.
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I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.
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I like my country, but I don't think like an Italian. It's a complex, complicated difficult country to make things happen in.
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I think you have to go deep into the bag of tricks, so to speak, to try and slow down the quarterback.
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When you celebrate, it's something that happens as a group. But when you mourn, sorrow is something that you handle as an individual.
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My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
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Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
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I think one of the first things to go as people's lives start to go down is their dreams. Dreams should be the last thing to go - dreams are the things you go down with. If you're left clinging to a piece of driftwood in the middle of the ocean, I'd put on it the word dreams.
