Blake McIver Ewing Quotes
I have been working professionally in the entertainment industry since I was six.
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
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I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'
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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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I play as I feel.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life.
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I think if anybody had the opportunity to stay in one place and play ball, they would.
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I'm not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small just to make me feel bigger.
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It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments that somehow mean a lot to an audience when they really register right.
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
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But I've consistently worked for 10 years.
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I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.
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I accept reality and dare not question it.
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Before swearing in new citizens, immigration officials check to make sure prospective citizens weren't on voter rolls or voted before achieving legal citizenship. A citizenship petition can be denied if they were.
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When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.
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I love being in my 40s.
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Mess up and draft somebody at my position, because you are going to sit around and watch him sit the bench. That's always been my mentality. I see it as a challenge.
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Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.
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I have been working professionally in the entertainment industry since I was six.
