Chris Pine Quotes
More than anything, what we do as actors is to sit and watch, and I would never want to get so lost in the celebrity bubble I couldn't do that because my feet no longer touch the ground.
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You cannot do only one thing.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
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Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.
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In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.
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Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct 'British' accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page. When you're on holiday and writing a letter home to a friend, no one wants a letter that says the food is good and the weather is charming and the accommodations comfortable. You want to hear about lost passports and rat-filled shacks.
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We are commanded to seek out those who are lost. We are to be our brother's keeper.
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Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.
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People think I'm going to be this really dark human when they meet me.
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There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.
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More than anything, what we do as actors is to sit and watch, and I would never want to get so lost in the celebrity bubble I couldn't do that because my feet no longer touch the ground.
