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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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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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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In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercize their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.
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While I was on an undercover assignment in Texas, I met my wife, Kelly.
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In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York football Giants.
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To be recognized for your hard work is a true honor. An Academy Award nomination is one thing that, five years later, I can't form a sentence about. It has not made me feel like I can work any less hard. It makes me feel like I have to work 100 times as hard, to even be as remotely good, to work through an experience that could take me through that again.
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You learn to be comfortable with your body. It's fine and not a big deal.
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I think, at the end of the day, if you're a good actor, then you're a good actor.
