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 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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I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.
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It's all about dreams. If I had to attribute my success in life to any one thing it is this. I believed in my dreams, even when no one else did.
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Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
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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.
