Person Quotes
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Believe it or not, I'm as much a fan of a supper shortcut as the next person.
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Someone might say about a person, "Oh, they are a 'Westerner." But who are Westerners? Greek, Bulgarian, German, English, Scandinavian, Spanish, American, Latin. All different nations, all different people. Different individuals live in the West. There's no such thing as "West" just as there's no such things as "East." What is "East?" Turkey, Iran, China, India, Japan. They are all different. They are all unique.
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I was the sort of kid who spent a Sunday afternoon prying little trees out of the foundation of his parents' house. I should have given in to the inevitable truth that this was the sort of person I would become, in the end, but I kept fighting it.
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It just makes so many other things insignificant. It is the most incredible thing that has happened to me, and I feel so lucky to have found the person I want to be with, and to be prepared and enthusiastic.
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Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?
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A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
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If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune.
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Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.
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The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destruction and loss of them. Parents, siblings, children, the death of parents, family tension... these are monumental things. They struck me as being interesting to write about. I didn't have a very exotic life, but all this stuff happened to me.
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It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.
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It's naive to think you can change a person--except maybe that boy who works in the library.
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We have a couple of dogs, but I wouldn't describe myself as an animal person.
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Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.
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A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it.
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God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
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Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere.
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One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?
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I don't sit there and speculate. I'm not that sort of person. It wastes time, actually.
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Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.
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I have an 'office,' technically. I never use it. I work on a couch in my living room, with my laptop on my lap, looking out the windows. I love space and green things. And I'm an incredibly casual person. I slouch. I close the laptop and just lie on the couch for a while if I need to think. I put my feet up on a table while I type.
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I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.
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Me and Woody Harrelson, we're twins. We're the same person. I should only make movies with him.
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I would say off the cuff that I am an anxious person. I worry about everything. I need to know everything. I tend to live in a state of anxiety with the feeling that life is some kind of great catastrophe.
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Every person needs to feel significant. We want our lives to count. We yearn to believe that in some way we are important and that hunger for significance-a drive as intense as our need for oxygen-doesn't come from pride or ego. It comes from God because he wants each of us to understand how important we are. ... We must seek our roots, our origin, and our destiny so that we can know our present value. ..... ...We can help each other realize that we are persons of significance being made in the image of God.
