Mario Cuomo Quotes
I don't ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant. I've known him a long time. I've always liked him.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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When you have a 'solution thinking mindset' - and choose to focus 80% of your thoughts/words on solutions - you will not only be heading more speedily to long-term success, but you will immediately feel better in the moment.
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
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I fell in love with acting. I thought, 'This is what I want to do.'
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Nobody in my family before me ever had anything.
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My grandma was very traditional, but she herself is a rebel of that culture.
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The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.
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I don't ever recall having a political argument with Bob Grant. I've known him a long time. I've always liked him.
