Bill Vaughan Quotes
The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.
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We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.
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There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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I like being unconventional.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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People love to talk about how the '70s are the only time they made movies about characters, and adult movies, and complicated people. But in the '80s, they got away with some of those too.
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Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.
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There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.
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When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent.
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My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.
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The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.
