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"Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself. You always worry about charlatans. We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought."
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Charles Bronson
"Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself. You always worry about charlatans. We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought."
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"I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem."
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Mackenzie Crook
"I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem."
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"If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens."
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David Duchovny
"If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens."
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"There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good."
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Jude Law
"There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good."
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"I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away."
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Jack Nicholson
"I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away."
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"I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing."
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Leonard Nimoy
"I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing."
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"One thing that golf teaches you is humility."
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Robert Wagner
"One thing that golf teaches you is humility."
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"I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day."
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Mel Gibson
"I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day."
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"My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age."
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Brian Austin Green
"My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age."
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"Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength."
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Shemar Moore
"Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength."
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"The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him."
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Morgan Freeman
"The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him."
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"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens."
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"Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext."
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Gary Oldman
"Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext."
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"No, I was going to college and got discovered."
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Jay Hernandez
"No, I was going to college and got discovered."
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"I don't think I'll have to kill her. Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that's all."
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Sterling Hayden
"I don't think I'll have to kill her. Just slap that pretty face into hamburger meat, that's all."
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"Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days."
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Thomas Haden Church
"Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days."
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"Everyone is different, but I'm not standoffish at all. I'm not one of those people who prefer to write a note. I'll walk right up to you and ask you out! Even if the answer's no, I'm totally cool with it."
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Corbin Bleu
"Everyone is different, but I'm not standoffish at all. I'm not one of those people who prefer to write a note. I'll walk right up to you and ask you out! Even if the answer's no, I'm totally cool with it."
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"Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent."
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Marlon Brando
"Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent."
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"I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash."
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Brendan Fraser
"I wish I could have 25,000 years of my personal family history documented in a very powerful computer or a CD-ROM that I could just pop in and my computer would never crash."
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"I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line. They share and deal with that sense of risk every day, so I got to see that up close."
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Ryan Reynolds
"I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line. They share and deal with that sense of risk every day, so I got to see that up close."
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"The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'."
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Michael J. Fox
"The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'."
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"I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned."
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Colin Mochrie
"I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned."
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"Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block."
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Billy Bob Thornton
"Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block."
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"I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?"
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Peter Fonda
"I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?"
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"Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was."
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Ben Vereen
"Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was."
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"I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things."
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Ed Harris
"I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things."
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"I was on the speech team, we called it forensics."
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Thomas Lennon
"I was on the speech team, we called it forensics."
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"Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness."
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James MacArthur
"Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness."
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"It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate."
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Peter Krause
"It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate."
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"For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man."
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Kurt Russell
"For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man."
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"Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs."
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Carroll O'Connor
"Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs."
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"I always watch Dean Martin's show... just to see if he falls down."
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James Stewart
"I always watch Dean Martin's show... just to see if he falls down."
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"One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests."
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Max Beerbohm
"One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests."
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"Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed."
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Peter Coyote
"Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed."
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"Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it."
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Tim Roth
"Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it."
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"Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie."
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Lukas Haas
"Material Girls was so different for me, I'd never done a teen movie."
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"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck."
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George Sanders
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck."
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"Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money."
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Mackenzie Crook
"Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money."
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"But I think once the word gets out that the movie is funny - funny is transcendent - it will traverse all demographic barriers if people embrace it as a funny movie."
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Thomas Haden Church
"But I think once the word gets out that the movie is funny - funny is transcendent - it will traverse all demographic barriers if people embrace it as a funny movie."
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"Freedom. It's not something you go out and die for."
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Jack Bowman
"Freedom. It's not something you go out and die for."
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"If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it."
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Dirk Benedict
"If you want to have great success, you'd better give them what they want, but so be it."
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"I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff."
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Alex O'Loughlin
"I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff."
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"We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment."
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Dennis Weaver
"We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment."
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"From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work."
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Dirk Benedict
"From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work."
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"My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness."
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Rene Auberjonois
"My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness."
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"Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying."
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James Caan
"Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying."
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"I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance."
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Kevin Bacon
"I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance."
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"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."
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Bruce Lee
"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."
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"You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself."
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Peter Berg
"You might make a lot of money, but it's very hard to get out from under that rug. The more you can reinvent yourself, the better - and unfortunately TV is designed not to let you redesign yourself."
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"You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting."
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Ed Harris
"You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting."
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