George Akerlof Quotes
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
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I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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I feel like maybe I'm part of that generation that became more of a gamer than a video consumer. It's always been something I've done with my spare time. If I had three hours on a Friday night, I'm not out partying. I'm probably playing video games.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.
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The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.
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For me, Romesco is one of the greatest sauces in the world.
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I believe good governments have nothing to hide. We want to ensure we maintain confidence in our public institutions.
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I mean, 'Girls': I love 'Girls,' I watch 'Girls.' But it's a show that's very coastal. People in New York and people in L.A. and people in San Francisco will watch it. But I think in Middle America, for the most part, it probably isn't watched as much.
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I would never have been a good reporter because I am not accurate regarding facts.
