Neil Jackson Quotes
I've played a lot of villains. The villains are always fun because you can just go fractionally bigger than life. It's always a grey area because you don't want to end up mustache-twirling and making them a little false, but you always get to play a little more, whereas the lead guy has to be a little more straight.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.
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Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.
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My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.
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I'm actually not making fun of my real parents. I've taken stereotypical traits of my real parents, my aunts, my uncles and parents of every race and put them into these two characters, who are just over-the-top ridiculous and super-alpha parents about everything.
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It's funny to think that at 22 years old, I was really burned out from being on the road for 10 years.
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I've played a lot of villains. The villains are always fun because you can just go fractionally bigger than life. It's always a grey area because you don't want to end up mustache-twirling and making them a little false, but you always get to play a little more, whereas the lead guy has to be a little more straight.
