Darren Criss Quotes
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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For me to go casual is not to go simple. To me, it is to be able to bring back the art of tradition and the soul of French food and my interpretation of that.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.
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Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there's rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.
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I remember Tom Stoppard saying to me when I came out, 'I feel so sorry for you, because you'll never have children.' These days I would say, 'Well, why not, Tom?'
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Whoever thinks... that the European economy can be competitive without economic cooperation with Russia, whoever thinks that energy security can exist in Europe without the energy that comes from Russia, is chasing ghosts.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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I'm incredibly impatient; I'd like to be less so, and more content with the now.
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I just try to focus on one step at a time, what I have to do or what the team has to do to get here.
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You can't ask a guy like me why I performed. I really wanted to fly through the air. I was a daredevil, a performer. I loved the thrill, the money, the whole macho thing. All those things made me Evel Knievel. Sure, I was scared. You gotta be an ass not to be scared. But I beat the hell out of death.
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See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?
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In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role.
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Roll on, thou ball, roll on!
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I never let my politics supersede my manners.
