Kay Cannon Quotes

I felt that a cappella was the improv world with music, where it's very serious, and there are groups and competition, and some people become famous, and there's a language we speak from one improviser to another.

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• I'm a character actor.

  

  Aaron Paul
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• Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

  

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• I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.

  

  Jackson Browne
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• The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.

  

  Sam Harris
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• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• I don't know the right way to retire.

  

  Barry Sanders
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• Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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• Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.

  

  Laura Dern
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• Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • World
  • America
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• I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

  

  Ziggy Marley
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• Midi is my hobby.

  

  J. J. Johnson
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• Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Man
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• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  

  Dan Wheldon
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• In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

  

  Nancy Roman
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• I wish I could make multiple records, stylistically. The way that I'm gonna remedy that is to make a diverse record with a lot of different styles on one record.

  

  Sam Hunt
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• I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
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• As long as I love Beauty I am young.

  

  W. H. Davies
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• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
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• I try to start every day with some sort of vegetable and fruit juice before I eat any kind of solid food. Because that really jump starts your body and digestive system with the high content of micronutrients that your body needs.

  

  Jake Arrieta
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• I don't believe in paying for sex. Which is why I'll never again pay for a woman's dinner.

  

  David Wain
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• I loved make-believe. I was the child in the cupboard playing with my Barbies.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
  • Believe

• It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Time
  • Bad
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• I think anytime with your mom, whether she's famous or not, you're watching what she's doing when you're growing up. She also taught me the basics: Make sure you use a good moisturizing shampoo and conditioner, and then use a detangler to comb through your hair. And don't overdo the heat styling.

  

  Jillian Hervey
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• I felt that a cappella was the improv world with music, where it's very serious, and there are groups and competition, and some people become famous, and there's a language we speak from one improviser to another.

  

  Kay Cannon
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