Joe Mantegna Quotes
I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.
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It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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I think that we live in a highly specialized, technologically advanced society. Highly developed societies tend to have very remote understandings about what underlies our prosperity.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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You can't change the system through violence.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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It's highly dishonorable to ever quit a production. I never have done it, and I can't imagine ever doing it. However, I have been in productions before where, on the first in the read-through, you feel that someone is in trouble, and indeed, actors have been let go shortly after read-throughs. I've seen that happen before.
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You show people playing poker or hacking into a computer; it feels so significant in the script, and then when you see it on the screen, it loses something. But there's something about cooking - food being prepared is incredibly captivating. It became just a fun box of tools to use as a director.
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Policy people suffer their own kind of agony, and no wonder. After all, what is the average life of the policy person? You go into government if you are lucky, do your best, aren't appreciated, take all the blame for policies for which you are only partly responsible, leave, realize your reputation has been damaged, maybe permanently.
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I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.
