Carl Rakosi Quotes
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During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.
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It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my parents' marker is 'Do you have a wife?' and 'Do you have children?'
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I want to keep working. I have been stuck in this routine of coming to the set, putting on my make-up, eating, and leaving for home.
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I don't have slim children. I have hearty ones.
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I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role.
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My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
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Friends are not made, but recognized.
