John Benjamin Hickey Quotes
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
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I no longer limit myself.
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If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
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My work is through my emotions, so everything kind of goes together.
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I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.
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Orchestras are not used to playing the kind of stuff jazz musicians like to play. It requires a lot of rehearsal and recording time, so it's much easier to do on a synth or sampler. So, we came up with that idea.
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There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.
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Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
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I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
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In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
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Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.
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In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.
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I wear my personality on my sleeve, for sure, and my look is constantly changing because so am I.
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Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.
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You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them!
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Anna Held's birthdate and hometown are a dark mystery, thanks to her own mythmaking.
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Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.
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The first thing I did on television was a PBS thing where I played a priest. It was a Walt Whitman or Carl Sandburg story - I can't quite remember - but I was a turn-of-the-20th-century priest kind of guy. Never saw it; don't know if I was any good or not.
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The savages don't have atom bombs.
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We all have competitive relationships with our siblings.
