Mark Hamill Quotes
In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there's too much I liked about it to give it up completely.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced into working rather than doing it off my own bat because that was my dad's way: you got a job and paid your way.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
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I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.
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I was not trying to write some sort of serious meditation on war and peace. 'The Grace of Kings' is meant to be a fun book. It's meant to be an epic fantasy.
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Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!
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'Programming' is a four-letter word.
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For centuries, the horrors of war have been sculpted by artists so people would never forget.
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In high school, I had to hide my comic book side, my nerd side from the civilian world so they wouldn't categorize me. They would try to marginalize me for what I like. I tried to give it up, believe me. I tried to kick the habit. But there's too much I liked about it to give it up completely.
