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"Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally."
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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."
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"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"
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"The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them."
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"What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself."
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"Whether it s the country or city, I never liked the bad guy."
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"To them, the real United States is just flyover country."
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"From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore."
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"They need to be re-supplied with energy, and that energy comes from asking not what your country can do for you, but from what you can do for your country."
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"I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too."
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"We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition."
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"You can never get to a place of comfort in this business. As soon as you hit that little cushy spot, somebody's gonna kick you out. So I have a constant need to do it better."
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"And I do think that earlier in my career, I did make a very conscious decision to make sure that I was doing work that wasn't necessarily given to me, and that people didn't necessarily think that I would be able to do."
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"I mean I tried to transform myself through characters throughout my career."
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"Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over."
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"I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled."
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"I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy."
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"At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did."
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"They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it's very easy to bore people, and that's a killer. So hopefully that won't happen."
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"I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films."
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"If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels."
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