David Schwimmer Quotes
Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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I am passionate about what design can do - how far it can support the new ideas and the new ways of living of this 21st Century. Good design accelerates this exciting future where manufacturing is local, materials and processes are cradle to cradle, business models are both socially and financially driven.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I just feel like I'm on a quest to fail if I try to even compete with myself.
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I love learning new techniques.
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Poisonous frogs feast on insects that don't even have names. Tropical lizards disappear into the cracks of trees whose branches spread out as wide as their trunks climb high. This is the real Florida, as it was before people, and probably will be after us, too.
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Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.
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Because I sidestepped all the stereotypical roles, in a way I've made a career out of not being Asian - a lot of my roles weren't written as Asian - so there's an impulse in me that wants to take a U-turn and play a very grounded, real Asian character, maybe an immigrant.
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Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception.
