Jane Austen Quotes
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Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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When attempting to make a plea for more peace in the world at a rock concert, we are reflecting the feelings of all those we have come in contact with so we may all have a better understanding of each other.
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Illinois surpasses every other spot of equal extent upon the face of the globe in fertility of soil and in the proportionable amount of the same which is sufficiently level for actual cultivation.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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I don't really have a type. I don't want to be a cliche. But personality is a big thing for me. You can find cute guys all over. But he's got to have some sort of sense of humor, which is so hard to find in a guy. He's got to be a bit smart.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.
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A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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The Law found more than it lost when Christ said, ‘Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven’ (Matthew 5:44-45). This most important commandment summarizes in a word the universal discipline of patience, since it does not allow us to do evil even to people who deserve it.
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I like to knuckle down and get on with my job. I'll make mistakes, I'm bound to, but I'll write them down and I'll learn from them.
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I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
