Kevin Spacey Quotes
I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?
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My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'
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I'm far from being a homosexual.
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I come from Canada, and maternity leave is six months to a year, and they also have paternity leave, and I think that there's something to that. There's also something to making a more comfortable environment for women to breast feed or to bring their kids into work and to have more nurseries in these office buildings.
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The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.
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The wicked are always surprised to find ability in the good.
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Africa is a continent that provides so much for the existence of the rest of the world. We go around the world and cultivate so many things.
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I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.
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I was not a studious kid, and I struggled to find things that would command my attention and engage my ideas and energies.
