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I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.
Looking back, when I was Gollum, I suppose I did break the mold to a certain extent. I'm proud, and very thrilled, to be a part of that.
Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.
It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.
The NSA is already bugging everything that everybody does. Each time there's a new revelation from Snowden, you realise the extent of it.
The game was different then, when I used to play. The ball ran more than the players and to some extent there was greater technical skill.
What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.
To the extent we push meat a little bit to the side and move vegetables to the center of our diet, we're also going to be a lot healthier.
It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!
As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
To the extent that Israel does face threats, like from say Hamas or Hezbollah, those are threats that do not jeopardise Israel's existence.
To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
Comedy ages quicker than tragedy, to the extent that we can't know if the 10 commandments may originally have been 10 hilarious one-liners.
Bands are actively seeking more film involvement - because the days of recording albums and MTV and even touring, to some extent, are gone.
Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.
Ilaiyaraaja sir is a legend and his films like 'Udhiripookkal' has inspired me to a great extent. In fact, that was the spark behind 'Naan.'
The big problem for atomic energy is that it can't compete on price with the new age of cheap shale gas and, to a lesser extent, clean coal.
I've always been an athletic guy, but the extent to which I go for 'True Blood' or for 'Magic Mike' is because of the role that I'm playing.
Obviously I have a capacity for feeling extreme anxiety, and there are people out there who don't. I'm to some extent rather jealous of them.
They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.
I was a huge Muppet fan growing up, but that was the extent of my puppet knowledge. I really loved the art form and the whole Henson universe.
I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion.
While my megalomania knows no bounds, directing is one thing I have never really done. I directed a couple of plays. That was the extent of it.
Sure, to an extent it's true that I probably would be just some random girl on Instagram if wasn't for my parents and I am fully aware of that.
It is just completely disgraceful that someone can go to the extent of morphing my face onto someone else's body to create a sensational video.
O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.
The role of government is to tax the people to the least extent possible while still taxing them enough to cover the basic needs for government.
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.
I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent.
Over the years, our political system has degenerated to the extent that it is difficult for anyone to make any headway yet keep his hands clean.
I don't think voters give a hoot about the character of their political advisors, except to the extent that character reflects on the candidates.
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
The historic quarrels between Japan and Korea pale in importance to the bigger question of extent of U.S. commitment to the defense of the region.
Don't hold back from being an 'empath.' Don't be afraid of shedding your tears. Feel it. Feel the full extent of everything. It gives us strength.
What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies.
I feel like the Internet has really freed everything up to an extent, hasn't it? That radio maybe doesn't have quite the power that it had before.
Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
I think many years ago I got on a bus in L.A. and drove around to see the stars' homes, but that's the extent of my direct experience in Hollywood.
Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!
To the extent the dollar gains strength relative to other currencies, assets priced in those other currencies would become cheaper on a dollar basis.
The police or any higher authority should never try and criminalise people for their sexuality. It is something that is to great extent given by God.
I like being boring to a certain extent. I don't have to be flashy. I get to put all of that into a show, and when it's over, I don't have to be that.
Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
Market discipline can only limit moral hazard to the extent that debt and equity holders believe that, in the event of distress, they will bear costs.
What the actor is in private life, he is to a large extent on the stage, because he cannot conceal himself and his true personality from his audience.
I would agree to some extent that on the Champions Tour that there is a greater premium on putting than the regular tour because of the course setups.
Judaism, I would argue, does demand love for our fellow human beings, but only to an extent. 'Hate' is not always synonymous with the terribly sinful.
All my works over the years have been autobiographical in the sense they reflect some part of my life, although I have fictionalised them to an extent.