David Ogden Stiers Quotes
Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's a nasty man about, cast Harold Pinter.'
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Indeed, willingness to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation stone of democracy. If all we have to do is to listen to the experts, what is the point of having democracy?
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It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
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The independence project in Catalonia is... a peaceful revolution, carried out in suit, shirt, and tie.
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I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
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I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music.
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You don't have a lot of time; you have to get it right. It's amazing how they create these episodes in such a short amount of time. They lavish a lot of care and money on each episode, and they just look terrific.
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My favorite television show of all time is 'Hill Street Blues.' I think it's the show that is to television what Pele was to football or Muhammad Ali was to boxing.
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We incarcerate more African-American men today than were slaves in 1850.
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Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.
