Bishop Briggs (Sarah Grace McLaughlin) Quotes
Every single time I perform 'River,' I just feel a huge rush of adrenaline and energy, and I remember writing it.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.
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Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.
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Each time that I have two or three days off, I'm off somewhere in California.
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My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone.
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Every single time I perform 'River,' I just feel a huge rush of adrenaline and energy, and I remember writing it.
