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When I'm shooting a movie, I'm always in an invisible theater seat. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.
You know, an opinion can be right or wrong.
There were times I wouldn't come to practice, because it didn't excite me. It wasn't interesting. I was kind of going through the motions.
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I wouldn't say anything is impossible. I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and put the work and time into it.
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I remember as a child, my mother loved Dean Martin. Every Christmas, about the only Christmas album that we were able to listen to was the Dean Martin Christmas album.
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'The Night of the Living Dead' zombies, I think I might have a shot at surviving. If they're the fast ones, I may have well just give up.
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E. B. White had a romantic tenderness toward nature in a capital R, 19th-century way. He was knowledgeable, a part-time farmer, and a hardheaded realistic person.
I was told as a teenager that I would never walk again.
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Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossip fest, and I love it.
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Henry David Thoreau was an oddball job quitter and ne'er-do-well who evolved into the bearded sage of literature, natural history, and civil liberties.
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I think as you grow up, you have the adjustment to responsibilities. Now you could say that's easy or not easy... but that's a difficult period of your life. You have the loss of loved ones, which then means you have more responsibilities. Periods in business when things don't run evenly.
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Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.
I think we all achieve a little. You can say, 'That's relative.' But when you think of world events, it really is very small.
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In film work, you do the best you can under the given circumstances, but you don't have control. At least, I don't.