David Powers Quotes
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do anything creative. They shrug and claim that they 'have no talent.' They say things like, 'Don't quit your day job' or 'Leave it to the professionals.' In the steampunk subculture, I don't hear those things.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people's hands and doing what I do best.
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I have a cat named Dandelion.
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The thermodynamic properties of electrolyte solutions can be determined from the measurements of the voltage between electrodes reversible to both ions.
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I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'
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In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.
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The chaos and confusion during the waning days of the Kitzhaber administration, as well as the ensuing federal investigations into allegations of misconduct, caused Oregonians to question their faith in their governor and state government.
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On my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain.
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Je représente un parti qui n'existe pas encore, le parti Révolution-Civilisation. Ce parti fera le vingtième siècle. Il en sortira d'abord les États-Unis d'Europe, puis les États-Unis du Monde.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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'Life wasn't meant to be easy.'
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Petal, like a persistent song phrase, like a few stubborn lines of verse memorized in childhood. The needle was stuck.
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The people who are slamming me have no idea about what it feels like to unjustly have a child killed in an insane war.
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A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
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Thalberg wanted commercial hits. I wanted art.
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As a reader, when the writer gets sentimental, you drift, because there's something fishy going on there. You recognize a moment that's largely about the writer and the writer's own need to believe in something that might not in fact exist. As a reader, you think, 'Where did the story go? Where did the person I'm reading about go?'
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Part of the fun of writing is having messages. Without them, it's all gunfights and car chases, and none of it means anything.
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Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.
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The unknown is always interesting.
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Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time.
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I'm just a newsboy who met a President.
