John Benjamin Hickey Quotes
Collaboration to me is... my favorite collaboration in the theatre is the collaboration between the actors and the audience because it's just that thing that happens when the only thing left that is left on the human scale is that human beings come to look at other human beings act out stories.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I wanted to go to college and play football.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can't let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can't.
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If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.
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I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.
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Caffeine. The gateway drug.
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I had to learn a lot about myself during the situation with my brain tumor.
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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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I love parties. I love a good time.
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A jam means it's not structured - let it go. Let it go here, let it go there.
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When we judge other people we confront them in a spirit of detachment, observing and reflecting as it were from the outside. But love has neither time nor opportunity for this. If we love, we can never observe the other person with detachment, for he is always and at every moment a living claim to our love and service.
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Collaboration to me is... my favorite collaboration in the theatre is the collaboration between the actors and the audience because it's just that thing that happens when the only thing left that is left on the human scale is that human beings come to look at other human beings act out stories.
