Denis Healey Quotes
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
Zoe Kravitz -
I'm a character actor.
Aaron Paul -
The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
Earl Weaver -
We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
Patrick Leahy -
When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
Ralph Brown -
I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
Larry Hagman
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
Ted Danson -
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
Carlos Santana Santana -
Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
Warren Farrell -
I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
Parker Posey -
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
Faith Evans -
I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
Ice T -
I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
M. J. Rose -
I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
Campbell Scott -
When you're 47 years old and playing at a world-class level in the fastest sport, and you have zero percent body fat, you need to be brought down a peg as often as possible.
D. B. Sweeney -
I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
Ranbir Kapoor
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
Dan Rosensweig -
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
Mason Cooley -
In our lives, on average, we will be asleep for a total of 8,477 days. If we're lucky, some of that time will be sleeping next to someone we love.
Ze Frank -
I have a goal so lofty it's almost embarrassing to talk about. And that's to be the best restaurant in the world.
Charlie Trotter -
I like there to be some interest in every element of my life.
Waris Ahluwalia -
On the 1983 general election (The News of the World, 19 June 1983).
Denis Healey