Chris Pine Quotes
I'm in that lucky percentile where I can worry about how I want to shape my career. That's a wonderful place to be.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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I am at a stage where I want to be known as a versatile actor.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.
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Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.
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There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.
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I like a mannish man: a man who knows how to talk to and treat a woman - not just a man with muscles.
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We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.
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I always need a little something sweet after dinner. Although I try to stay pretty disciplined with my nutrition when I'm in season - my brother Kyle eats super clean and always gives me nutrition advice - when I want something, I have it because I feel like you can really get in trouble if you restrict yourself too much.
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Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
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This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
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I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.
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I'm in that lucky percentile where I can worry about how I want to shape my career. That's a wonderful place to be.
