Eric Bogosian Quotes
I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.
Quotes to Explore
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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My education was very tough.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.
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Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
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It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others.
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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
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I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.
