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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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I'm on Facebook anonymously. I wanted to see how people use it, what's going on there, but I personally didn't want to be on it because everybody in the world tries to get to you with scripts.
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People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections.
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By and large, small companies don't want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions.
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I want to be in New York. It's the place to be.
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You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is determined. You can write anything you want, but only one thing works.
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As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.
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I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it's all pretty interesting stuff, but a lot of them lack gravitas, you know.
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
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I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't – that to me is not life.
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My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.
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I don't want to sing boring pop songs – I want to sing songs that are meaningful to me.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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It's very hard to just have a pure form like a Hulu or a YouTube to be successful in China because our view is, users come to a platform; they really don't care whether it is professional or whether it's a user-generated, or it's premium, you see. They want to come to a big database to be able to find the content they want.
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If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons and get them registered to vote for me.
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All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.
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Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
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Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that.
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I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.
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Once you really understand your role... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
