Kevin Spacey Quotes

If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch a TV show on your iPad, is it no longer a TV show? The device and the length are irrelevant; the labels are useless, except perhaps to agents and managers and lawyers, who use these labels to conduct business deals.

Kevin Spacey

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 26, 1959

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We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when times are good, that times were ever bad.

Jill Lepore

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So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.

John Drinkwater

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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

John Dryden

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I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

Robert Redford

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You're always just one punch away from getting hurt. But look, if it's going to happen, it's going to happen. I think I'm going to walk out of this sport of boxing when I think it's the right time.

Amir Khan

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I've been a writer since I was a kid. I've been a writer since I was, you know, dictating stories into a tape deck and trying to get my mom to type them up - when I was really, really little.

Shonda Rhimes

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World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

Jon Meacham

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Gary Johnson's refusal or inability to name a single foreign leader, current or former, whom he admired, showed that he is not ready for the presidency.

Christine Todd Whitman

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If people see me giving back to the military, they'll hopefully follow suit and be good to these guys who have done so much. I'm not Lance Armstrong or Tiger Woods - I'm just an old, gray-beard mountain climber, but I'm hoping to inspire people to follow my way.

Conrad Anker

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Why, in such a case, should the performer essay any sort of considered approach at all?

Brian Ferneyhough

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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

Alfred Hitchcock

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I can't write about your pain; I only know my own.

Shelby Lynne

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