David Ansen Quotes
Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade'
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.
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Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.
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There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I like to do comedy. It's my real passion. I want to make people laugh.
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How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.
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My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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I've always refused to play terrorists.
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The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.
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I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.
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Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion.
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I have never been to a museum in Hong Kong, or a movie or a play. I've never gone club-hopping. I've never taken the tram to Victoria Peak.
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With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.
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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
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You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.
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In the end, oh I know, never, in my haggard passion, have I ever been such a cadaver as now as I take again in hand my tables of the present— if reality's real, but after it's been destroyed in the eternal and the moment by the obsessive idea of a shining nothingness.
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The best present I've ever given someone is myself. I've given it to everyone.
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Abraham Lincoln did not contend that his actions were immune from Congressional correction; on the contrary, he specifically said he was acting beyond the present provisions in the expectation that congress would retroactively approve, which they did. He did not say anything like Richard Nixon: if the president does it is legal.
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I have nothing but compassion for someone who is so lost and uncomfortable in their own skin! That they look in the mirror and don’t like anything about what they see .....
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Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade'
