Kevin Costner Quotes
I have instinctually thought I could do things in my life, and I followed that up by sometimes putting everything I have at risk - my money, my house - to make a movie.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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Look at Michelle Pfeiffer: My God, she's 50 years old, but she is still so sexy. If I were into women, I would be totally into her.
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Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
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'Doctor Who' is where my love of science fiction and fantasy started. I was introduced to it when I was 8, and I'm still an avid viewer.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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My hunger serves me instead of a clock.
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The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.
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If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
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The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.
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I have instinctually thought I could do things in my life, and I followed that up by sometimes putting everything I have at risk - my money, my house - to make a movie.
