John Benjamin Hickey Quotes
I think, at the end of the day, if you're a good actor, then you're a good actor.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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I am not honest.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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I've been a fan since I was a kid of that sort of bump-in-the-night stuff. I don't tend to go in too much for the slash-and-burn-'em or the walker kills on 'The Walking Dead.' That stuff's not necessarily the stuff that frightens me or gets me going. It's more the terror of waiting, the thriller aspects, that I find compelling.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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The fans treated me royally.
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Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.
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Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that.
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I think, at the end of the day, if you're a good actor, then you're a good actor.
