Jeff Raikes Quotes
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.
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We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
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I became famous almost before I had a craft.
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I have no kicks at all The fact is I'm pretty happy about the whole thing...I enjoy this country. I like the parks and the highways and the good schools and everything that this Government does.
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Ah, ah, thy beauty! like a beast it bites,Stings like an adder, like an arrow smites.
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My first tic was to shake my head violently. I was in karate class, and I was shaking violently. All of a sudden, I just started to notice that the teacher was looking at me, and all the kids were wondering what I was doing. I suddenly felt really strange.
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I do not write political shows; I should not write political shows.
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For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.
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I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.
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When I go to audition for voiceovers, I do dress as if I'm going to an on-camera audition because that's my way of showing that I do care and it means something to me.
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Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.
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According to a new study, most men would like women to occasionally pick up the check. The study also found that most women would occasionally like to be paid as much as men for doing the same job.
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As an anarch, who acknowledges neither law nor custom, I owe it to myself to get at the very heart of things. I then probe them in terms of their contradictions, like image and mirror image. Either is imperfect – by seeking to unite them, which I practice every morning, I manage to catch a corner of reality.
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Uruguayans are competitive, and we always want to win. Even though we try to hide it, it is impossible.
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I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.
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In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground.
