Dave Heineman Quotes
But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.
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I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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I don't like controversy.
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When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple weeks ago, I think I felt obligated to bring a Super Bowl to Minnesota.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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It's almost kind of satisfying when you get direct proof that someone stole your bit. It makes the times you had the paranoid suspicion feel less crazy.
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Every actor fears unemployment – even me.
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I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.
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History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.
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But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.
