John Henrik Clarke Quotes
A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.
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A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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When I was a kid, there was so much talent outside of recorded music.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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My students are noticed by the people I respect from the quality of their work.
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It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.
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I coach young people. I have a group called BTP - Broadway Theatre Project.
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Sometimes it takes an injury to get your chance.
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Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see your purple underwear.
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A people's relationship to their heritage is the same as the relationship of a child to its mother.
