Powers Boothe Quotes
I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky to always be involved with quality actors, quality directors, quality writers.
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.
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We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
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How I see my career is very much as an entrepreneur in the field of philanthropy.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.
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Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.
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I'm always investing. I'm constantly in talks with someone about some opportunity.
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
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In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.
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One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.
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I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the opportunity to plan their own deaths, and also plan for those who are left behind. What does that do to the grieving process?
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The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions... the two are not synonymous.
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Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.
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I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.
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Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.
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I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.
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I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.
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The destination you think is going to make you happy, doesn't. I always find myself thinking, "I'm getting ready right now, but when I get to the party it's going to be great!" Once at the party, I find myself going, "Man, can't wait to get in bed tonight. I'm pooped." It's like that with my career, too.
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There is less difference than you would imagine entertaining little children and entertaining adults.
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The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.
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I don't think of myself as being invincible anymore.
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We need to reward the 'thankless job' of substitute teaching with better pay and chances for permanent positions. I look forward to the day when no student comes home saying, 'I didn't learn much today... we had a sub.'
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I've been fortunate in my career to have the opportunity to pick and choose the parts I play. I've also been lucky to always be involved with quality actors, quality directors, quality writers.
