Kevin Costner Quotes
I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
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Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.
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I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.
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Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.
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I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.
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I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.
