Orson Welles Quotes
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.
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The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.
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If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'
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I used to read a lot of fashion magazines: my favourite was 'Nylon.' I used to cut out all the pictures from magazines, and I had this book where I would keep all of the stuff that inspired me.
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If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
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I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.
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My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.
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Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.
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I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
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There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.
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People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.
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I'm not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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My involvement with Guantanamo began as vice chief of staff.
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What really promotes business in this country is liberty, not demand for information.
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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A cardio workout increases blood flow and acts as a filter system. It brings nutrients like oxygen, protein, and iron to the muscles that you've been training and helps them recover faster.
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By nature, I’m rather passive so it’s important for me to appear confident on stage. I was very nervous.
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Probably you don't understand why I'm leaving, but to love and to suffer are parts of life.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
