David Strathairn Quotes
In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.
Quotes to Explore
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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I loved things like Destiny's Child, and Amy Winehouse's first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan - just massive, soulful voices.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
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You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
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And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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I think it is all about finding ways to challenge yourself.
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The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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The thing about dancing - what it taught me all those years - is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don't really want to do.
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I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.
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I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.
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I like playing characters that have a prickly armor because when you start to see the cracks and some heart come out, it gives the audience something to look forward to.
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I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.
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That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.
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Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.
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I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.
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In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.
