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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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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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
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We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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When you have a situation where you're hanging out with 20 or 30 other artists, then there's insane amounts of creativity in the room.
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Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed.
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The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process data in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know today.
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If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.
