Joey Skaggs Quotes
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Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
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Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.
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I'm not in the business of politics.
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In Romania, we have pledged to create a modern public service: well-educated, appropriately rewarded and above all, de-politicized.
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Whenever a dope artist comes out of nowhere, the first thing you do is try and compare it to stuff until you realise that that artist is just them, and eventually those comparisons will stop.
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When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.
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There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.
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When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God.
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The media's job is to question a premise.
