John Donne Quotes
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.
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I was not getting work, even after auditioning for films. So I started working in a studio as a photographer; I assisted a cinematographer for two ads. I was thinking that I will get into photography or cinematography or assist someone. But then the 'Dangal' offer came, and I was busy with the auditions.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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I'm one of the regulars. I play this doctor, Dr. Andrew Brown, going through some marriage problems.
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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
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I've been fortunate, I guess: I've gotten to play a lot of very diverse roles for quite a long time. But in the beginning, I was thinking, 'I'm not gonna do certain characters. I will be willing to say no and live on a couch.' And I was really happy.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.
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Possibly I am difficult to live with, but I don't bring my work home much. I'm either busy or not busy. And I don't work from home. I have an office here which has a white wall. No view. I did try working in a room with a view but it was too interesting. Too distracting.
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The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.
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Improv changed my life in the best way. I gained so much confidence and really learned how to use my sense of humor to do something other than make sarcastic comments to the TV, though that remains one of my best skills. I stayed in Chicago for college mainly to continue doing improv, which was an awesome decision for me.
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As well a well-wrought urn becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.
