Chris Pine Quotes
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	A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.   
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	River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.   
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	I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.   
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	I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.   
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	I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.   
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	And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.   
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	The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times blockaded and constantly at the Russians' mercy, Berliners are committed to this one goal with a unique urgency.   
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	I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.   
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	When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.   
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	I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.   
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	In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.   
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	I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.   
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	As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.   
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	I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.   
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	Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.   
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	For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.   
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	Nothing recedes like progress.   
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	Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.   
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	No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.   
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	It was messed up, because in 1947 my family moved to Seattle and I had to get up at 5:00 o'clock in the morning to catch the ferry back to Bremerton every morning because I was Boys Club president.   
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	Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.   
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	Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.   
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	Miramax didn't introduce the actors at any of the screenings. That's why a lot of people thought 'Kids' was a documentary. I still meet people who think it was real.   
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	Everybody's got family, or they don't have family, but they come from somewhere.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					