Orson Welles Quotes
Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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No one person is an island.
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Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.
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We'd all [with Mike Mitchell] been together at Dreamworks for over ten years, so we all had the same goals.
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You need people that are willing to talk to the other side, or you're never going to get anything done. You need to be willing to expand your ground. There's always usually a place on issues where you can find common ground.
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The rules of engagement are so lax that soldiers are shooting and killing Iraqis under mere suspicion, and tragedies are everyday. There are road killings, killings on the road when someone is trying to pass a convoy and they get shot. Or if a roadside bomb goes off, the soldiers just start shooting in all directions.
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I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play.
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The majority of the time, we try to hire the best people that we can get just to make the best films, and I think that's something that Pure Flix has been known for the movies we produce on the budgets that we do... our production values have elevated this genre.
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Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
