Jack Kirby Quotes
There were very strict social conventions, and you adhered to it, and I think it gave you a lot of character. When a man said something, he meant it. He wasn't kidding around. There were no jokes involved. Nobody was in the mood to joke unless you hit a guy with a baseball bat.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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Whether people like it or not, China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
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I always have bananas with me for energy.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Before I can finish one song, another is knocking on my door in my head.
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It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good.
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The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.
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He (William Cort) had some desire to be successful, but it did not burn so strongly in him that he was prepared to overcome his character to achieve it.
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There were very strict social conventions, and you adhered to it, and I think it gave you a lot of character. When a man said something, he meant it. He wasn't kidding around. There were no jokes involved. Nobody was in the mood to joke unless you hit a guy with a baseball bat.
