Larry Drake Quotes
My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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My personal style reflects my music. My music and how I dress is just how I express myself; it's just me. My music is urban pop, and my style of dressing is urban but still girly. I like that combination. The contrast is very nice.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.
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My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
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During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.
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Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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Procrastination comes in two types. Some of us procrastinate in order to pursue restful activities - spending time in bed, watching TV - while others delay difficult or unpleasant tasks in favor of those that are more fun.
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My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
