Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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I like heels and make-up.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'
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Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times.
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Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
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I do think there are trends in your life once youve been auditioning long enough. I was the angry teenager and then the sweet victim.
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Let us be servants in order to be leaders.
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I started out as the assistant to the editor-in-chief at 'Ebony' magazine. She took me under her wing and gave me opportunities to take on bigger responsibilities very early on in my career.
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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
