Jeffrey Pierce Quotes
All actors are looking for that role that's going to define who they are. When it happens, it's a good thing.
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I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.
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Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
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There's depth in my comedy.
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That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.
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He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
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If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.
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It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I'm one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings.
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A strong reputation is like a good bonfire. When you have one kindled it's easy to keep the flame burning, even if someone comes along and tries to piss on it. But if you fall asleep and neglect it...You'll wake up with ashes.
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In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.
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All actors are looking for that role that's going to define who they are. When it happens, it's a good thing.
