Gary Goetzman Quotes
To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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As miserable as I was, once I started singing, I felt better.
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I chose the Egyptian dream: the dream to make a TV show, and then be called an infidel by the end.
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What I do is write books for an audience that thinks in a movie language. That's the way I think, and I also believe that not enough authors keep up with the audience.
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No good deed goes unpunished. I missed the moon landing by being nice to a stranger.
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I never know what all of these guys are thinking, but Marco Rubio sounded desperate, like, We've got a leak in the dike, we got to stop this thing.
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To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.
