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 am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
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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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I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.
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Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because it is founded on a much higher degree of realism--has at its disposal more means of manipulating reality and of modifying it from within. The film-maker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last the equal of the novelist
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Life whispers to you all the time...from the time you wake up in the morning and with every single experience.
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
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We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.
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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.
