Keith Coogan Quotes
That is one of the first things my family, my mother and my grandfather, had taught me about acting: 'Use your eyes!' Not being able to do that physical aspect of it, and having to put it all into your voice? That was a little bit of a challenge.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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I'm just a low-key guy.
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Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.
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He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.
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I'm one of the only actresses in Los Angeles who has never waited tables - yet - and I'm so terrible at holding trays. When we shot the 'Vampire Diaries' pilot, I totally spilled water all down Nina Dobrev, and she had to get her hair and make-up redone.
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Canada has the world's largest Ukrainian population outside of Ukraine and Russia. As a senator from Minnesota, a state with a large Ukrainian-American community, I understand how important it is that Canada works with us to stand up to Russian aggression in Ukraine.
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That is one of the first things my family, my mother and my grandfather, had taught me about acting: 'Use your eyes!' Not being able to do that physical aspect of it, and having to put it all into your voice? That was a little bit of a challenge.
