Jim Dale Quotes
We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved.
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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I love India.
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I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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I had such an amazing experience on 'The Pillowman' that it was hard to think what else is going to live up to that.
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America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.
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I would never shoot down any opportunity to challenge myself or stretch myself.
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My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
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Selecting Budapest would not only be a new city and country for the Olympic Games, but put the region on the map. We want to organise the first Central Eastern Europe Olympics.
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I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.
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We all have that desire to be kind of wild and bad.
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I think that, ultimately, there are so many characters in G.I. Joe that even all the iterations - the comics and the different cartoons and everything - have been a big ensemble. Lots of crossing storylines and stuff.
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I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.
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Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!
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I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.
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Panned or not, 'Dune' is a real part of science-fiction filmmaking.
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When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there.
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We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved.
