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?

  

  Garrett Camp
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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.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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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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• It's not about if I can! I'm doing this because I want to... If I have to die fighting for it, then I die.

  

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• We face cyber threats from state-sponsored hackers, hackers for hire, global cyber syndicates, and terrorists. They seek our state secrets, our trade secrets, our technology, and our ideas - things of incredible value to all of us. They seek to strike our critical infrastructure and to harm our economy.

  

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• Bob Dole. He's like the neighbors' Labrador retriever your dad used to curse for all that barking, all that darn digging in your mom's tulip bed, and now look, you live next door to a godforsaken pack of teeth-baring rabid Pomeranians, and, good golly, Bob Dole!

  

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• I was offered some film roles, and I did not do them. It would have been interesting, but I have no regrets. I am where I am; I accept and embrace the mistakes because they're character-building and they build perspective and talent.

  

  Peter Scolari
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• I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where our souls belong....The only solution is to confront them - confront yourself - with the greatest fear imaginable. Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
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• I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there.

  

  Poe Ballantine