Bryan Cranston Quotes
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I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
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You can promote fights - of course, you have to - you can say 'I'll beat you' or whatever, but you cannot put family, religion, anything like that in the mix. You need to separate things. That is a line a lot of fighters cross.
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Machine translation of signs, text, and speech brings down language barriers and facilitates ever more cross-cultural meetings of like minds.
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He's the bafflement of Scotland Yard, the Flying Squad's despair: For when they reach the scene of crime - Macavity's not there!
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.
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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there; Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate And the Warder is Despair.
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Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do.
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Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent.
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I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.
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When kids would say 'Ching Chong Chinaman,' I thought they were talking to someone behind me. I used to think I was a white Jewish girl named Rebecca or Rachel.
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In the end, as much as the responsibility seems to lie with Beijing, it also lies with the global consumer. Our appetite for the $30 DVD player and the $3 T-shirt helps keep jewelry factories filled with dust, illegal mines open and 16-year-olds working past midnight. We all pay the China price.
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I think it's great to grow up in a small town because you're just dying to break loose.
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Mixing humor and politics is something that works.
