"To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work as old-fashioned. It does not have a frame of actuality in our time or locality."

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Source : Source: sturm-lie.be

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“America's military is the best in the world, but this president [Barack Obama] is hollowing out our military. We need a commander in chief that believes in American exceptionalism again.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.”
“I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.”
“The world is full of pots jeering at kettles.”
“The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.”
“I think the point to be understood is that we're all different. I've never been a fan of theories of acting. I didn't go to drama school, so I was never put through a training that was limited by someone saying, 'This is the way you should act.'”

Source : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. July 10, 2000.
“Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.”

Source : Song: If It Doesn't Come Naturally, Leave It
“Oh yeah, I think about kids all the time. I feel like the next person I commit to, that's going to be the guy who I'm going to have kids with. That's in my crazy female brain. So that's why I'm like, 'I can't commit.'”

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