H. G. Bissinger Quotes
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Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.
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I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It's made me make some decisions that I'm sure I wouldn't have if I didn't suffer with this affliction.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.
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The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
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I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
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The first band I was ever in, I played guitar. We did Gary Glitter and Green Day covers at the time. We were called Fizz. I have no idea why we picked that. We were, like, 12 years old.
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But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition away.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
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I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend - where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?
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I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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I work out in the Caribbean for half the year, playing a detective who's really into science. Anybody who knows me will tell you that's a dream come true. But it's tough for my family. We only get to see each other every two and a half to three weeks.
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Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.
