Tim Blake Nelson Quotes

I think we all live dichotomies. I'm a father of three boys and a loyal homebody sort of husband and father. And yet I act in movies and write and direct movies.

Tim Blake Nelson

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We have to be realistic: we are not going to be able to deport 11 million people - most are hard-working people.

Joe Garcia

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Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always. Always.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion.

Aml Ameen

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We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

Sonny Landham

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Being able to take care of myself is something that my mom really instilled in me.

Stevie Nicks

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In America, at the beginning of talkies, they pulled Fred Astaire from the theaters and put him on the screen and had all of these great composers write songs for him. They call it the Great American Songbook; I call it the Fred Astaire Songbook because they were written for him.

Tony Bennett

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There are a lot of westerns that deal with people standing up for their principles, and that is the predominant theme that has been in my films.

Rod Lurie

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Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'

Joshua Foer

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With most other genres, you need movie stars. With horror, you just need a story.

Jason Blum

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The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

Diane Arbus

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I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. I would just fly off jumps and go 40 or 50 meters when I was 6 years old - break skis, smash my goggles and get a bloody nose and go crawl inside for a little while and then come back out and ski more in the afternoon.

Bode Miller

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When I was little, my mom would dress me up and take me downtown on the Carondelet bus, which in itself was exciting. We would go to see Santa Claus at Famous-Barr. The decorations were so pretty. The line was long, but that just gave me more time to enjoy Santa's Toyland. I loved every minute of it.

Phyllis Smith

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