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.

Donald Sumpter

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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.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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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.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
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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.

  

  Harold Urey
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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.

  

  Randy Moss
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• My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.

  

  Irwin Shaw
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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.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
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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.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • German
  • National
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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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• A balanced plant is essentially what every manufacturing manager in the whole western world has struggled to achieve. It’s a plant where the capacity of each and every resource is balanced exactly with demand from the market.

  

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• Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.

  

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• I listen to music two ways: As a person, you have an instinctive, personal, emotional response. But as a music supervisor, you have a secondary response, which is, 'Will this sit well under dialogue?' 'Can people die to this?' 'Can people kiss to this?'

  

  Alexandra Patsavas
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• How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?

  

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• Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

  

  Maya Angelou
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  • Hope
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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.

  

  Donald Sumpter
  • Character
  • Hope