Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.
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I've always been attracted to action stuff.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Whenever you're going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.
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In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.
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When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.
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Life is much too serious to be taken seriously.
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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
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Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.
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I'd been acting in Chicago since I came back after University, and I got a call from my agent saying, 'They're doing this revival of 'On a Clear Day,' and I actually auditioned when the team came through Chicago for the 'American Idiot' tour.
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The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.
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There is a wonderful feeling of power when you're a director, but I don't think I need that, and I'm OK without it.
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
