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When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.
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I think if you want to make a good sports movie, you've got to cut down on the sports. You have to make it about people. You can't try to impress people with your knowledge and the X and O's and all the details and the technicalities.
Kevin Costner
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It's such a cool thing in life to get what it is you want. Most of the time we don't, but occasionally we do.
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I think one of the first things to go as people's lives start to go down is their dreams. Dreams should be the last thing to go - dreams are the things you go down with. If you're left clinging to a piece of driftwood in the middle of the ocean, I'd put on it the word dreams.
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We all have to have our north star that we fix on and go to, but life is so much about the things that bump into you.
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Sometimes we worry about the things that you know that matter the least and don't focus on the things that matter the most.
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Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.
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I don't go against the grain because I'm a contrary person.
Kevin Costner
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I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's actions.
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I've always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience.
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The western will always be here. And it just depends on how good you make one. And one movie doesn't kill it. And one movie doesn't preserve it. It's storytelling. It's a very American thing. I'll continue to do it.
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The truth is, I just want do things that are original and throw an original spin on them.
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I have a tremendous belief in people, not that people don't let me down, not that I haven't maybe let some people down. But I have a tremendous belief in people and in the common experience.
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You can be as you choose to be. It's an act of discipline sometimes, but it can be done.
Kevin Costner
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When I read a story that I think has value and I want to be in it, that doesn't change for me. It doesn't fall out of favor for me. I might have to move on because the universe is saying you can't make this right now. But I'm going to circle back and make it.
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You know, what if everybody's wrong in life? And so you have to live your life yourself.
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I have instinctually thought I could do things in my life, and I followed that up by sometimes putting everything I have at risk - my money, my house - to make a movie.
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I'm a 'what if' person. I have always felt that failure was a completely underrated experience. I have taken blows. I have had high moments. But I don't think the blows have ever hardened me. My enthusiasms are still big.
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I've always been distracted when somebody is coming after me and saying, "You're the only person who can play this part."
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I was always listening to my father more than anyone. I was always afraid of my father more than anyone. But there's a moment in time where other men in your life can have a huge impact.
Kevin Costner
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If you want to make a great sports movie, don't put too much sports in it. It's the backdrop. It's the environment.
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It's nice to be wanted. That's a really good feeling. I'm not immune to it.
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Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.
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I will never forget what happened here tonight.people I went to school with will never forget.
Kevin Costner