Chris Pine Quotes
'Star Trek' scared me a lot more than 'White Jazz.' It terrified me, really. Because of the scale, the responsibility, the fact that it was this iconic character. It was the bigger challenge, so I had to take it.
Quotes to Explore
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
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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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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
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Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.
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I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go with me into the green country and be satisfied.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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We have a lot of relationships to the gatekeepers who can rally their people to go to the movie theater. It's a trusting relationship.
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When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had most in mind, and James Joyce's 'Ulysses.' Entirely out of the blue, Kafka's characters receive an order to go somewhere, and when they try to comply, they never quite manage it. Ki-yong in 'Your Republic Is Calling You' is precisely that sort of character.
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I definitely want to do films. To see a character out from beginning to end in a matter of a hundred somewhat pages and then move on to the next role, is fascinating.
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The amazing thing about a football team is we can disagree and fight like brothers, but then we come back together. We are able to be open and honest about things that may offend us.
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'Star Trek' scared me a lot more than 'White Jazz.' It terrified me, really. Because of the scale, the responsibility, the fact that it was this iconic character. It was the bigger challenge, so I had to take it.
