M. Ward Quotes
I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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I do believe that all of the world needs reform. The reform must take place everywhere.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.
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Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
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We basically ran the Henry Bellmon campaign.
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Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.
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In a world of global competition and new technology, I think competition is coming from new places.
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.
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I went every Sunday to church when I was growing up, and I think that music had an affect on me before my memory can recall.
