Ian Anthony Dale Quotes
A lot of the time, a moral compass is all that separates a hero from being a villain; otherwise, the two are very much the same. Both are generally the richest and most complex characters, and they get to have all the fun. I guess it's those types of roles that I ultimately gravitate towards.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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Live life to the full, and become more curious every day. The more you find out about life, the richer your music-making will be.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated.
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Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.
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Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.
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A lot of the time, a moral compass is all that separates a hero from being a villain; otherwise, the two are very much the same. Both are generally the richest and most complex characters, and they get to have all the fun. I guess it's those types of roles that I ultimately gravitate towards.
