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Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

Been Else Everyone EveryoneElse
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I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

Acting Anyone Box Certainly
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Because acting was my only professional outlet, I put a ton of pressure on the roles that I did. I overstepped my bounds, I tried to control things that were out of my purview as an actor and in some cases even tried to direct my scenes because I felt I knew how they should run rather than trust the director.

Acting Actor Because Bounds
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I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.
Cast I Think Like Self
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I might have to stumble a little bit more in public than others, but that's fine, I don't mind, I've developed a thick skin.

Bit Developed Fine Little
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I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There just came a point after those eight years when I thought, 'There's a lot I can do with acting - there are a lot of things I can express and do creatively, but there are also limitations.'

About Acted Acting After
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When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.

Actor After Author Career
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When I sign on for a project, I'm there to give the director all the material he or she might need to tell their story, and that's the number one priority.

Director Give He He Or She
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School allowed me to have outlets so that some of the pressure was taken off the acting. Every role in every movie, I used to live or die by. Once I had these new outlets, I relaxed a lot more.

Acting Allowed Die Every
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I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

Animals Be Kind Care Child
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I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

Became Box Connoisseur Letter
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I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.

Automatically Come Fact I Think
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I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

Animals Children Dependent Helpless
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Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

About Any Cost Counting
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I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.

Actual Bring Cinema Even
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If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.

About Anything Enough Get
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I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.

About Achieved Cause Celebrity
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My days, if they start in the morning with a cuddle from my son, are just so much more glorious than they were prior to that.

Days Glorious Just More
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

Age Better Boldly Fade
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My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.

Any Charlie Children Daddy
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You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

Forget Heaven Kingdom Like
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You don't have to like an actor to do a scene with him. You don't have to like a director. But it's just better if you do. And I think, you know, you've got to begin that with respect.

Actor Begin Better Director
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I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and be absolutely confident that, whatever is required of my character, I can do it.

Absolutely Actor Character Confident
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There's an ease that I have living in Australia. The best things about Sydney are free: the sunshine's free, and the harbour's free, and the beach is free.

About Australia Beach Best
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I've loved Danielle Spencer since 1989 - that's never going to change - and that's one of those things where I stare at her and go, 'How did it fail?' I still can't work it out, because my feelings for her have never changed.

Because Change Changed Did
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It just seems like a religion that is perfect for people who feel like they need a grounding, who feels that the world has run off on them. I've discussed this with Scientologists, and they don't disagree. So, for a certain type of person, that's great.

Certain Disagree Discussed Feel
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I've got bits falling off me. I'm not made of rubber. That's from film stunts. Every single injury I have is related to a movie. I know that sounds fundamentally embarrassing.

Bits Embarrassing Every Falling
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War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

About Actually Also Benefit
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I look for the role that excites me and work with whoever that director happens to be, wherever he wants to shoot the film.

Director Excites Film Happens
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The Americans love Aussies, but they're actually quite afraid of us at the same time because they think we're insane. Then they see our sports - league, union, and AFL - and that makes them even more worried.

Actually Afraid American Because
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At 49, I find it a little bit difficult to run these days. I've got grade four tears in both Achilles, shin splints, I got no cartilage the toes in my right foot, I've got bone marrow edemas under both knees, I've got one degenerating hip - that's the problem you get.

Achilles Bit Bone BoneMarrow
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

Balance Ground Happy Hunting
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

Demand Devote He His
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People say, 'Surely there's the right reasons for going to war?' And my perspective is, 'Surely there's a better way of asking that question?'

Asking Better BetterWay Going
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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

Battles Behind Forehead Fought
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The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

Get Men Now Only
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I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

Age Even Got Guitar
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Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
Eats Her Ireland Old
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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

Arguing Busy Centuries Immortality
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

Abroad Against Charged Danger
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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Branches Charter Constitutional Derived
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
Having Men Ought Power
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

Any Before Branch Commerce
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.

Accepted Alone Concur Constitution
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The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

Blood Ceaseless Centuries Church
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Against Best Crafty Dangerous
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Avail Cannot Choice Laws
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In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

Danger Great Majority May
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And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

Both Done Doubt Every
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There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

Current In My Opinion Interest Liable
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