Jeremy Howard Quotes
Acting was always something fun to do on the side growing up, but I never really took it seriously. I would do a commercial every few months, and that paid my school tuition. But in high school, I was mostly into sports and didn't go out for stuff during those seasons.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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Career had a lot to do with 80 percent of my breakups. It's very tough to date a struggling musician. The idea of it is enticing and fun and mysterious. But the reality is long hours and hard work. I have a lot of respect for the women I've dated.
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Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V, which relied on a chorus to explain in words the battles of Harfleur and Agincourt that could never be captured on the Elizabethan stage.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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Sometimes, you want to write how you feel, but making people have fun, that's part of it, too.
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Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. When you stumble, keep faith. When you're knocked down, get right back up. And never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on.
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I love film, but it's funny going to drama school for three years, where you spend most of your time training for theatre, then coming out and just doing films.
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For every champion, after you win the belt, you want to defend it as many times as possible.
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There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.
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Acting was always something fun to do on the side growing up, but I never really took it seriously. I would do a commercial every few months, and that paid my school tuition. But in high school, I was mostly into sports and didn't go out for stuff during those seasons.
