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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I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content.
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The people there, the community, the lessons that I learned -- they're all based right in this few square miles where we'll now be able to give something back and bring the world back home after this incredible journey.
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My family is my foundation. My sisters are awesome; they probably taught me everything I ever need to know about girls.
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I'm no dancer. I got rhythm, I can dance if I need to, but I'm not Chris Brown. He's an amazing dancer. If I'm not going to be amazing at it, I'm not gon' do it. I'm gonna do what works for me, and you're going to feel it 'cause it's me.
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The multiple reinforcing cues of a good song-rhythm, melody, contour-cause music to stick in our heads. That is the reason why many ancient myths, epics, and even the Old Testament were set to music in preparation for being passed down by oral tradition across generations.
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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.
