Kevin Costner Quotes
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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When I read the script and saw the jazz music setting, and when I read the name of the filmmaker was Damien Chazelle, I immediately got this mental image of Antoine Fuqua.
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I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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I started modeling with a very negative part of me – I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.
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We're going to be treated very poorly, I think that goes with the territory, and you have to get over it, get beyond it and know who you are among your peers and especially among your family when you look in the mirror.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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By any measure, NBC is a corporation.
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'There is nothing,' says a correspondent of the New York Times, 'which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.
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I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.
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If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.
