Keith Olbermann Quotes
As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.
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'In A World...' changed my life a thousand per cent. I feel thankful that something I believed in so much - I love dialect, so I dedicated five years of my life to making a film about it - yielded such rewards. It led to 'Man Up,' as well as 'No Escape,' which comes out later this year... two movies where I am the female lead.
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
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I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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I've had a fast track to who I want to be. I know all of my friends are struggling to what to pick in college, and I've been given a fast pass to kick start my future.
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Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.
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Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.
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Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place where life is exaggerated and seen at its most vital and poignant, I'll be writing about life more than I will be writing about medicine.
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We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
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It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.
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I was born in Riverside and spent my whole growing-up years in Florence, a little township on the Delaware River. I tell people that I'm from the West Coast of New Jersey.
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No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.
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I've always lived by the principle of find what you really enjoy doing and make it your career.
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Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.
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You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.
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I will forever be grateful to my oncologist for opening the door and saying, 'Damn it, the tumor's 10 percent bigger,' before he even said hello.
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I don't know anyone who ever got deferred pay. I'm the first of my friends to ever actually get a deferred paycheck.
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As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.
