Kevin Costner Quotes
I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.
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I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee 'Everything is Awesome.' They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge.
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To me, form is not about scoring runs but how you feel about your game. Sometimes the runs are not there, but you know you are batting well, and that is good form for me.
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When I get to work with someone like Prabhu Dheva at the beginning on my career, why would I say no?
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
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Over the years, I've learnt from co-actors, directors, technicians, and even from junior artists.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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I have no wisdom to share on dating.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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It’s often described as a cool war that we are entering – I would say it is feeling exceptionally chilly at the moment.
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Trend analyses for extreme tropical cyclones are unreliable because of operational changes that have artificially resulted in more intense tropical cyclones being recorded, casting severe doubts on any such trend linkages to global warming.
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I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.
