Ralph Nader Quotes
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Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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The way I work is by infinitely playing a very simple loop over and over, and then I start layering things.
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When your co-stars are 9-month-old babies, you fall in love. You start thinking, When am I going to have my own?
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.
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Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.
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There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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I always felt that my way into comedy would be through my writing rather than my acting.
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I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late.
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Cricket is not everything, not by any means, but it is a large part of who I am. Therefore, I want to play in all formats of the game and to play as much as possible because, before long, it will be over.
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Work is both my living and my pleasure.
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When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
