Walter Payton Quotes
Money isn't everything. Do you get married because of money? Do you have kids because of money?
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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I always come to conclusions very fast. Well, that is one way of thinking, and the other way would be that I lack the necessary perseverance to stick to one thing that really fits me. I don't know if it's a good thing or bad thing.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented!
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed a searing man-crush on Clint Eastwood.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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I'm very kinesthetic, and when you're that way, you just feel it in your body. I know that other actors think with the logical part of their brain, but I wear my character inside my body, even when I'm away from the set.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
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I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.
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The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.
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You just can't bifurcate bitcoin currency from the technology. Bitcoin will always need a monetary base.
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Obviously, artists need to make money and stuff like that, but if you do something good or if you make good art or make good stuff, the wealth will find you in some way.
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I don't like to work for politicians because I hate to work on anything that you can't give back if it doesn't work. I sell products. I do a commercial for, say, Meow Mix, and you don't like it, you get your money back. You can return it. Politicians, you can't return. You're with them for four more years. And that's scary.
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For a lot of people, film is still the dream - the captive audience in the darkened theater - but I love TV. I think it's fantastic.
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Money isn't everything. Do you get married because of money? Do you have kids because of money?
