Dan Amboyer Quotes
It is exhilarating and dangerous to perform live. You are walking a tight rope in front of hundreds of people: anything could happen on stage, and whatever does, you must find a way to make it work.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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I was a campaign widow.
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As long as people want to see me do this action and sci-fi stuff, it would be wrong of me to deny the fans what they want to see.
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People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms.
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One of the difficulties you run into is that acting and celebrity are so closely intertwined. People make careers out of being charismatic personalities. It's one of those things that people have come to expect from actors. Personalities that don't change from role to role. I don't want it that way.
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It's such a pleasure to work in these movies, it's almost like it's not really happening.
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I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
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It is exhilarating and dangerous to perform live. You are walking a tight rope in front of hundreds of people: anything could happen on stage, and whatever does, you must find a way to make it work.
