"We were defined by what we did. What we had to do. I think this is why guys like football, and why they join the army, because as long as you are playing the game or following orders you do not have to figure out who you really are."

-- Pete Hautman

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“One can learn, at least. One can go on learning until the day one is cut off.”
“Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.”
“As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of our rejection or acceptance of tradition. We will not make the mistake that both rigid modernists and conservatives make, of confusing the quality of form with the specific forms themselves.”
“In movies, I have had the opportunity of working with some of the people that I respect very much”

Source : "Chi McBride of 'Boston Public'". Interview with Lori Blackman, edition.cnn.com. April 10, 2001.
“The first idea of Captain Fantastic was a pretty radically different one. The genesis had to do with parenting and questions about parenthood and fatherhood specifically. I have two kids and I was grappling with what my values were and what I wanted to pass to my children. So I was positing different kinds of parents and different ways of parenting. I played with various ideas - very permissive parenting, very restrictive parenting and then I came up with the character of Viggo Mortensen, and much of it was aspirational, some of it was autobiographical.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I've always had a flare for the dramatic. I thought about being an actor and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do, just to stay sane. It's my over-pressure valve.”
“Whatever expectations I had for myself, none of them have come to pass. I grew up thinking I was going to be an actor, which I am. But I thought I'd be a very serious sort of Shakespearean guy going from town to town having sex with various Juliets all over the country.”
“A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.”

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