Bill Clegg Quotes
I spent the first 33 years of my life with secrets, and lots of them. I spent a great deal of energy worrying over what people thought and obscuring the things I was ashamed of... trying to appear what I thought was normal.
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're going. America can't have a vision of health care for everybody, green economy, regulations - can't have a bunch of piece-meal activities. It's got to have a vision.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.
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I want do a Mandarin language movie. It'll probably be the next movie I do after the one I do next.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.
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Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
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When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.
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Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
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As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility.
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A movie is a mass consumption product. I have got no delusions about being niche. I don't want to be niche. Though in the earlier part of my career I was into niche cinema, doing independent films - and I do have a revolutionary bent of mind - but you cannot make a change from outside; you have to be a part of it.
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If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it's got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It's not therapy - it's supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment.
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I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.
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There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.
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In Russia all people enjoy the equal rights, including homosexuals.
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I spent the first 33 years of my life with secrets, and lots of them. I spent a great deal of energy worrying over what people thought and obscuring the things I was ashamed of... trying to appear what I thought was normal.
