John Benjamin Hickey Quotes
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a comedy. But in a drama they'll really cry. That bugs me.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I wrote a great deal of a novel, 'Winter's Tale,' on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I was a technical climber, and now and then I would put down my manuscript and get up to walk along parapets and climb walls and chimneys.
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Books and people are hard to compare.
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You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.
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I wouldn't say that my family is normal.
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One of the great joys of being an actor is you get to go back to school.
