Kevin Spacey Quotes
If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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I loved the world of imagination.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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I am who I am.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians.
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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I think I'm like a free spirit.
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Sometimes I panic to the point where I don't know what I'm thinking or doing. I have a full anxiety attack. I have them all the time anyway, but with auditioning, it's bad.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.
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The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
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The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
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I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.
