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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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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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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People have this impression that I'm a little kooky, but I'm actually very OCD. I love order and organization. I'm a big list maker. But if I cross off too many tasks, and it's hard to see the remaining ones, I have to start a new list. Now that's OCD.
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Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.
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I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
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I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.
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Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.
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When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
