Kevin Costner Quotes
What is it you want? That's a question that we all get posed sometimes internally and sometimes externally.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.
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Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
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I was interested in virtual reality for several years even before working at USC, it wasn't an interest that started there at all. In fact, when I started working at USC, I already had prototypes of the Rift that were very similar to the final design.
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I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
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I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
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I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.
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'The Grail is like God. It is everywhere, all around us, obvious, but we refuse to see it. Men think they can only see God when they build a great church and fill it with gold and silver statues, but all they need do is look. The Grail exists, Thomas, you just need to open your eyes.'
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We're gonna give you a great show.
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The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it’s wanting what you get.
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I want my next girlfriend to be my wife.
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What is it you want? That's a question that we all get posed sometimes internally and sometimes externally.
