John Millington Synge Quotes
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.
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I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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A good society is a society which believes that it is not good enough; that it is the task of the collectivity to insure individuals against individually suffered misfortune; and that the quality of society is measured by the quality of life of its weakest, just like the carrying power of a bridge is measured by its weakest pillar.
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The trouble is, I just don't know if I'm too human or not human enough.
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Being a studio make-up artist and working on magazines was the only thing I wanted to do.
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No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines.
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You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.
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They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.
