Poe Ballantine Quotes
I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.
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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
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I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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Facebook is made up of people you've met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850 'friends,' and a lot are acquaintances, not friends. I don't really know them. If I've met someone one time, how should they be influencing my feed?
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The train system in India is chaotic and fun - it's the best way to see the landscape. Being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colourful experience you'll never forget.
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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
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I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
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I'm a great jazz fan.
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In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created.
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I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.
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Highlight reels are about that one person. After a barrage of highlight reels, you get the sense that you can do it without a team. But music thrived the most when groups were involved. People lose sight of that - that community makes the world run.
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I don't believe in changing the unchangeable.
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I loved Judy Garland growing up, and I also loved Ella Fitzgerald.
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I think denim is something everyone feels comfortable in. It's kind of my uniform, really.
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But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.
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What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.
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No step taken in faith is wasted, not by a God who makes all things new.
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I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.
