Kevin Spacey Quotes
I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
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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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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
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You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
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I know this sounds phony, but I don't start out on a project going, 'I'm going to make an emotional work,' you know what I mean? You try to tell the story directly and honestly and with passion.
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While writing, I'm always so happy in the middle of a book or finishing a book and really hate starting them, so I often think, 'I wish I had a really big book to write to which I could devote seven years of my life.'
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Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.
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I terribly miss - we all miss, I think - somebody like the great producer Irving Thalberg. He had a foot in both camps: He understood us creative people. And he understood the money people.
