"There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened."
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"I learned that the Holy Water better be fresh, that I need practice throwing the spheres, and that someone has to watch my back so asshats don't steal my demons."
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"All I need in a relationship is somebody to watch TV with me."
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"I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that."
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"To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute."
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"She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse."
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"You simply have to surrender to the present moment. Be alert. Watch something in a state of alertness. Always, continuously, bring that into everyday life, not spirituality here and getting on with your life there."
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"I just don't watch a lot of TV."
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"It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all."
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"In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it."
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"I never go back over something I've done and I never watch them again."
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"If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me."
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"I like movies like 'Mother's Day', where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie."
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"I promised Todd [Willingham] that I would attend the execution. ... It was impossible for me to go. I was incapable of that sort of travel. Sitting in a chair that long, driving to Huntsville just wouldn't have happened. ... I'm sure I would have been there. It's something I know. I would not have denied him that, but the accident kept me from being there. At some level, the universe was giving me the excuse for not being there. ... The universe was like, "Oh, you don't have to watch this." ... It would have been a horrible thing, but I'm sure I would have gone."
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"Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die." Kate to Will"
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"If you want to find out how strong a company's ethics are, don't listen to what its people say, watch what they do."
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"Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss's neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper?"
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"The only movie I can watch on a loop, over and over, is 'Help', the Beatles movie. It's so funny and irreverent and great."
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"Never underestimate what it takes to watch someone you love in pain."
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"Sometimes I want to watch movies both to see what to do and what not to do also."
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