John Charles Polanyi Quotes
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.
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I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.
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If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.
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I don't know if I have any feelings about psychics. I never really met any.
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I just think it's quite remarkable that everyone says they want to add more commentary to their news pages. In some ways, I think, 'Well, how is that even possible?' It seems sometimes that that's all that there is.
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Lyrically I'm untouchable, uncrushable. Getting mad blunted in the S-500.
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In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized
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there is time to play...and then there are times to work hard and get my fans an album.
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Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.
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I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic was happening. And I was lucky that it didn't affect my lungs or my legs. It went to my face and kind of paralyzed my vocal chords, and I wasn't able to sing. And they said I was very lucky that I would get over it, which I did.
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It's weird: you do a TED talk on something, and people think that you suddenly have a lot of answers around the topic.
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One of the things I like to do during an 'overhaul' revision is bust out my highlighters and colored pens. Tools like these make me feel like a real writer.
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Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.
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Every person born into this world their work is born with them.
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I have two Jack Russell terriers, Harley and Gracie, who I like to go running with in the park.
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John is going to feel bad because of the situation. Probably he will react to something not that serious because of the situation.
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There are the obstacles of your position as an actor, not being a commodity enough to be hired by the big directors for projects that have some kind of integrity, because the successful actors who've been in the game for a while want those roles. So there's more competition, so you have to work harder and be right for it.
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It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the degradation of women. And those women are consistently wearing too short, too tight dresses. I hope the trend of aging gracefully returns.
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Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
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The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
