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"I like to imagine that all the choices you make during the day that you're doing a particular scene are going to feed into the creation of that scene. It's not a movie-by-movie or a part-by-part basis. It's a day-by-day thing, and sometimes an hour-by-hour thing."
"Commitment is what your boss needs you to have. Choice is what you need to have."
"For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?"
"They're both [Ethan Hawke and John Travolta] so good. It's hard to explain. But they're consummate professionals and you see the little choices they make - you see it in their eye. You see these little details they do where you go, "That's why they're them.""
"Without question, we make choices - and those choices have consequences. So can you control your own destiny? To a degree, certainly. Must you have faith in serendipity? Without question, you'd better. Otherwise you're foolish."
"We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the theater."
"Most of us make unconscious choices in the words that we use; we sleep-walk through the maze of possibilities available to us."
"I have felt for a long time that I want to return back to being a singer-songwriter for a period of time. I will go back to Broadway. But I want to make the right choices about why to go back and when I am ready to go back."
"I live in Brooklyn. By choice. Those ignorant of its allures are entitled to wonder why."
"I figured it is always better to be unpopular by your own choice."
"Direction is a thousand choices, a thousand decisions a day. And having a vision of what you want, and then knowing what you want frame-by-frame, second-by-second... if you don't have it laid out in the design and in the way the actor performs it, it's not going to happen."
"From where I sit, it's a superb cabinet [for Donald Trump] so far. A lot of these choices could have been made by Ted Cruz. So you're going to have this shotgun marriage between a very orthodox Republican cabinet and a very unorthodox."
"If religion comprises rules you follow, faith is demonstrated by the actions you take."
"The next time you have a choice between chasing the charts (whichever charts you keep track of) and doing the work your customers crave, do the work instead."
"Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way."
"The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice."
"By your choice dwell you now in the world which you have created. What you hold in your heart shall be true, and what you most admire, that shall you become."
"We notice what we choose to notice."
"In fact, most of the time, people with similar information, similar beliefs and similar apparent choices will choose similar actions. So if you want to know why someone does what they do, start with what they know, what they believe and where they came from. Dismissing actions we don't admire merely because we don't care enough to have empathy is rarely going to help us make the change we seek. It doesn't help us understand, and it creates a gulf that drives us apart."
"Who gets to decide what you want?"
