Kevin Spacey Quotes
If it were not for people who stepped forward and gave me opportunities at a time when I had not proved myself at all, believe me, I would not have a career.
Quotes to Explore
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.
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We are likely to feel better when we go to bed tonight if we have an internal sense that we spent our lives meaningfully today.
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I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life.
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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
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Let’s start with the most prominent ecological crisis of our time: global warming. When you look seriously at the numbers, you find that switching from a meat-based to a plant-based diet would do more to curb and reverse global warming than any other initiative.
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If it were not for people who stepped forward and gave me opportunities at a time when I had not proved myself at all, believe me, I would not have a career.
