Don Young Quotes
That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault.
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I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.
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Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
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I'm tired of living in a police state.
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I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
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There is no truly global justice.
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It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.
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I have fruit trees. Cows for fresh milk, yoghurt. My own wheat. I'm basically self-sufficient.
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With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.
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If you're skinny and you can't play hockey in Canada, you aren't left with a lot of options. I was left with running.
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I never think of myself as any kind of sex symbol, but I get letters from all over, all sorts. It's really cool. I get a lot from inmates, which is kind of scary. But the best was the guy who wanted to send me a plane ticket to fly me to his prom.
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People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.
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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
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Writing is the beast unto itself.
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I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.
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Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.
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Writing a film is like giving birth to a baby and then giving it up for adoption.
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The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.
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The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.
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At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.
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That's one of our biggest problems, it's always somebody else's fault instead of our own fault.
