Bernard Manning Quotes
I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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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've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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Nobody really knows for sure who the Blue Blazer is, but like I said in my interview, there's a little bit of the Blue Blazer in each and every one of us.
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If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
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Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.
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I think it's important to show people, especially young people, that it's okay to have a personality. And that they can express themselves however they like.
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You have to be very careful about what you say. More importantly, you have to be very careful about what you do. You never know how or when you influence people – especially children.
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I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.
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I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.
