Kevin Spacey Quotes
It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.
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A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
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World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. I did fiddle with lots of maps for 'Glass Sword,' as the second installment sees Mare, Cal and company traveling throughout their country, and that's always fun for me.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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I eat next to nothing.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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What kind of moron would go to work for half the amount of money, when they could sit at home and collect what's written in a contract?
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Only the continuous and steady application of the methods for suppressing a doctrine, etc., makes it possible for a plan to succeed.
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Ninth generation American, ma'am, and I'm the first one in my family born with all my rights. I'm a ninth generation American. And so we have not escaped because I went to Yale all the problems of this country.
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There are a million things out there every single day that trigger me - songs, smells, even the season that we're in, fall. Something about the air.
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The Virgin Mary is both a major medieval legacy and a complicated, messy mixed bag.
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It takes stamina to get up like an athlete every single night, seven to eight performances a week, 20 weeks in a row. And there are many young performers who only learn their craft in the two minute bits it takes to film a scene. You never learn the arc of storytelling, the arc of a character that way.
