John Noble Quotes
As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.
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When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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My characters hope for better lives.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
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If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
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The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.
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I don't think stardom will ever go to my head.
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I don't know if I am cut out to playing a bad character or not - I really should give it a shot. I would like to play the voice of a baddie, but that's really just a cop-out!
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The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.
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As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.
