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 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 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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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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Be with people who are travelling to Allah; these should be one’s friends.
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All of us have a lot of sides to ourselves, but the fun thing about being actor is you make one side predominant for the character you're playing.
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When I walk down the street in New York, I swear to God, the building constructor, the guy pounding cement and what not, will yell, 'Hey, you hockey puck!'
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When I read 'Maus,' I realized you could tell a story of tremendous import using the graphic novel.
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Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their Philosophy of the World.... Carefully notated structures and interplay morph effortlessly into free improvisation that is intelligent and expressive, but never self-indulgent. Also featuring intense lyrics sung with their clear and melodic voices, the two women make transcendent chamber music outside of any genre.
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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.
