Jackie Earle Haley Quotes
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
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Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
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I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.
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What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.
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The future is keeping you out of the present time.
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An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.
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Great songs come out of people's bedrooms; they come out of studios; there's no formula for it.
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I don't think it's a coincidence that 'The War Room' and 'A Perfect Candidate' are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country.
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I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.
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It's physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don't sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me - couple days a month, two hours a day.
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When it was time for a player to go, he went.
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Commercial television has underestimated the intelligence of the public.
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When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.
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Israel's strength will allow it to face the situation. We will carry on running the country and pray for good news from the hospital.
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When new things come along, some people always want the newest of the new - 'This is what I've been waiting for!' - and some people don't want or need the change - 'I like my old one.'
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.
