Donald Sumpter Quotes
The bedrock of 'Being Human' has to be characters. I would hope that even if suddenly we had a huge budget per episode, the foundation of the show, and the thing that actually makes it what it is, is character.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I like being unconventional.
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My characters hope for better lives.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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The two things that hit you when you meet someone are, first, how they're visually put together and then, what they tell you with the tone of their voice - whether or not they're to be taken seriously.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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Scare yourself every day, and do something that makes you feel totally excited and totally terrified.
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I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
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There just aren't many little guys who are good actors. They don't get the training; they don't go to RADA. There just aren't the parts for dwarfs, and if you like it or not, you're typecast as a dwarf.
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A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of heroism nowadays because higher consciousness is so trivialized.
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The bedrock of 'Being Human' has to be characters. I would hope that even if suddenly we had a huge budget per episode, the foundation of the show, and the thing that actually makes it what it is, is character.
