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" I have a very well organized closet. "
Greg Kinnear
Well
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" When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace. "
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" Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken. "
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" Cat lovers turn into cat collectors. "
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" Setting goals can blind you to opportunities. You might be trying to get to point C. When opportunity B comes, you don't even look at it because you're going straight to C. "
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" The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive. "
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" I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again. "
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" My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as a diplomat at the American embassy. My parents were enthusiastic about the move, so my older brother and I felt like we were off to some place kind of cool. "
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" If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it. "
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" I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long. "
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" There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting. "
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" I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched. "
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" The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies. "
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" I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars. "
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" I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. Not to date myself, but cable was just coming on. I had terrible territories, and they would give me $25, if I got somebody to let them come and just put the little cord in their house. "
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" Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation. "
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" I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept. "
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" I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills. "
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" I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went to high school, and we took the Cup my senior year. The downside, and somewhat unfortunate piece of information I have to pass on, is there were only two teams in the league because of the limited amount of Americans. "
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