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We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.

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Kevin Costner
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 18
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If you're going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you're tearing down someone else's hero. You're tearing down somebody else's son. You might have to face her one day.
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I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.
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I want to live forever, and I know I won't. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm only afraid of one thing: not being able to raise my kids.
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I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.
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Great stories don't often make great movies. Its' a crafted art form.
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I have instinctually thought I could do things in my life, and I followed that up by sometimes putting everything I have at risk - my money, my house - to make a movie.
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I work for the public, for the people who are paying to go to the cinema, rather than for the critics.
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I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse.
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If you don't understand your limitations you won't achieve much in your life.
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What is it you want? That's a question that we all get posed sometimes internally and sometimes externally.
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I think I'm a pretty right down the middle guy. I just think that's kind of who I am. I'm not afraid of my own journey.
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I think one of the first things to go as people's lives start to go down is their dreams. Dreams should be the last thing to go - dreams are the things you go down with. If you're left clinging to a piece of driftwood in the middle of the ocean, I'd put on it the word dreams.
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When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.
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I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.
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I don't take much stock in other people's opinions if I think something's good.
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Life's better when it's fun. Boy, that's deep, isn't it?
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