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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I did all my fighting before the film started. I fought for the best director, the best lighting man. I was always conscious of how I looked.
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Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others.
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We're just getting better at our trade, man. We know what we're doing, and the reason why is that we've spent 30 years doing it. There's nothing that can replace that.
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I have a simple rule: when I'm on TV, I'm not talking to just my anchor or my colleague on my right. I'm talking to America. I look into the lens, and in my head, I'm talking to somebody in Nebraska. Why Nebraska? Why the Cornhusker State? I have no idea. But it feels like it's a good place to talk to people.
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I think giving is a blind act that should come from a part of me that sees no discrimination (that's why I called it "blind").
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Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.
