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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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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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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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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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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I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.
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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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Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.
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It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.
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Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
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The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.
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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.
