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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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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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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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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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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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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I can't measure up to Homer. His composition has survived for nearly three millennia and remains the world's most beautiful and mournful depiction of war. But the story of the Trojan War does not belong to Homer. The characters he employs were legendary long before he was born.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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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.
