Kevin Spacey Quotes
The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.
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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
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In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
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I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
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Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
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Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.
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In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.
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Out of life's storm I carried only a few ideas - and not one feeling.
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Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies - the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation.
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I just tend to think about everyday things for my onstage act. Actually you know what I like to talk about just the absolute most - the more mundane the subject matter, the more interesting it is to me.
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He had delusions of adequacy.
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I’ve told myself I have a chance to make history, and that’s my focus.
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The legal profession, politics and acting are very closely tied: the whole point is to have an idea and get it across to a listener, whether it is one person or five thousand in a hall.
