Bill Owens Quotes
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.
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I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
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My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
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Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.
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One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.
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I am undeniably afraid of the dark!
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When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
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This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.
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In Washington, we've seen enough tax hikes, government takeovers, bailouts, and other big government solutions under Speaker Pelosi's control.
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We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.
