Kris Holden-Ried Quotes
Really, acting is like anything else. The more time you put in, the more you learn and the more you can give back to the industry.
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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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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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The truth is these characters [of Batman story] evolve, and there's a lot of hands in the supporting of these characters. It's great when everybody can know where everything came from. It's important for the legacy of them.
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I am fortunate to have only worn one shirt in my career. It is something that is fundamental to me. It is something I have always wanted: to be one of these few who wear only one shirt - a fan and a player of the same team.
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I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date at size 8. I have to date at size 2. And it's just a fact of nature. Go get your injections and your chemical peels. You gotta look good to attract a man.
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Is it more ethical to edit embryos or to screen a lot of embryos and throw them away? I don't know the answer.
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I've been reaching out to voters across the political spectrum from the very beginning.
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Really, acting is like anything else. The more time you put in, the more you learn and the more you can give back to the industry.
