Christian Bale Quotes
A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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I'm very, very used to hearing no - repeatedly! - and through my experience founding startups, I've learned to view those two little letters not as a final roadblock but as a problem to be solved.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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The whole point of science fiction is that you explore the effect of ideas on a society.
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Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.
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What I want to be able to do as an artist, and with this donation, is to reach out to the kids who haven't found that talent yet or don't have those opportunities.
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In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.
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A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.
