Keith Maitland Quotes
Two actors that I had particularly fantastic experiences with include Chris Doubek, a notable indie journeyman who also happened to live in the trailer behind my house, and Violett Beane.
Quotes to Explore
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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I was physically abused and I retaliated.
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Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
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If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.
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When I sing, I have to live in that moment, so my audience can feel that. That is my reason for doing art.
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My work participates in that really quick and easy and inexpensive material that's part of our culture. In that way, my work engages the means of production that we live with, even while it's classical and embodies some things from a very long time ago.
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I like films that take their time a little bit more and don't show you all of their cards right away, characters that are conflicted and contradicting and seem one way at first and then suddenly turn out to be something else.
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There's no point doing a job where you're uncomfortable or doing something you dislike.
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Two actors that I had particularly fantastic experiences with include Chris Doubek, a notable indie journeyman who also happened to live in the trailer behind my house, and Violett Beane.
