Bill Forsyth Quotes
I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
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The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.
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Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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Golf and dating don't mix.
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I continue to aspire to serve Colombia as president.
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Walking down the street with a portrait of the Dalai Lama will get one immediately arrested in most parts of China. Tiny medallions are routinely confiscated and destroyed.
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If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.
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When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.
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Theocratic and military authorities share one thing: they have no sense of humour.
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Utah is America's best place for business because Utahns make it their business to succeed - and we have the track record to prove it.
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They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.
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When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.
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What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
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My mother asks when I will do some theatre, and there is something about getting your 15 minute call. That is what you become an actor for - performing in front of people and getting the love from the audience.
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'One Tree Hill' was my first television experience, so naturally I was nervous initially. There is no rehearsal, you get your script a few days ahead, and you work. I was also the youngest actor, 13, on set at that time, but it was amazing to be able to 'learn the ropes' with such a supportive group of people.
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I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself.
