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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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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I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.
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Even when they are saturated in the sense of the older theory of valence, the elementary atoms still possess sufficient chemical affinity to bind other seemingly also saturated atoms and groups of atoms, under generation of clearly defined atomic bonds.
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Who knows what wild things Sleeping Beauty dreamt of while waiting to awake?
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I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.
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I think it's an important part of the visual effects supervisor's job to get really deeply embedded in production and keep us all focused on trying to generate the best result. I'm not proprietary about, 'I would rather do this effect than let physical effects do it.' No, let's do the smartest thing for the movie.
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The media's job is to question a premise.
