Bill Owen Quotes
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I'm a character actor.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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With Rajoy, there is a taboo topic, which is the aspiration of Catalonia to decide its future.
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To someone who is not currently on anti-depressants, I would suggest trying other treatments first - for example, psychotherapy.
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Every person wants to stretch himself and widen his audience. Since Hollywood has got more exposure and is shown all over the world, it's obvious that every actor would want to do an English film and explore himself.
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The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.
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I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.
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All I want to do is change the world.
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I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.
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Peace between Israel and Palestine would be a giant step toward greater regional stability, and it would finally let both Israelis and Palestinians benefit from the Middle East's growing wealth.
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Lance Armstrong: How bad do you want to win a stage in the Tour de France?
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As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old.
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Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.
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When I am designing, I make a selection of music that will be the inspiration behind the whole collection... I will be blasting that music-it becomes a journey I take in my brain to transfer that sound to the clothing.
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In psychoanalysis, only the fee is exactly what it seems to be.
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I'm the happiest combination you can think of. I'm a Russian poet, an English essayist, and a citizen of the United States.
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I have a beer belly.
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People have always challenged me. People told me I was going to get this big beer belly when I got done playing. But I work out six days a week, and when I turn 40, I'm going to still have that six pack.
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...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him..." - C.S. Lewis: Weight of Glory
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I'm driving down the freeway the other day, on my way to Knott's Scary Farm probably, and I hear this report on NPR that the whole lemmings thing was faked in the 1950s. They were shooting a wildlife documentary in the '50s, they found a group of lemmings, and the crew chased them all off a cliff. No lemming has ever jumped off a cliff, purposefully, ever. Isn't that unbelievable?
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Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!
