Ed Begley, Jr. Quotes
We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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But if the labourers could live on air they could not be bought at any price.
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I remember my girlfriend dropped me for the guy I thought was really cute.
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My dad spent most of the '50s and early '60s actually acting as sort of an advance man for the Justice Department, as a civil rights lawyer. So it was actually reading his papers after he passed away a few years ago that first started me thinking about this... What fraction of your life do you spend in service to your fellow man?
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As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.
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We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta save the dolphins. All worthy efforts, but if you're not centered and you don't have the serenity in your life you need to accomplish that task, you're not going to do a very good job.
