Chris Pine Quotes
Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like to be an actor - the rejections, the highs and lows... and having a common language with them is great because you have shorthand speech.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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I don't think you can get any more working class than me. Everyone seems posh to me.
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We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.
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Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like to be an actor - the rejections, the highs and lows... and having a common language with them is great because you have shorthand speech.
