George Matthew Adams Quotes
No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.
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If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
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I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
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As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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The one thing I've always done, because I like the sound of my guitar from where I sit - meaning not in front of it - so what I do is, I put microphones around my ears. I have them around my head, too. I don't know if it's a superstitious thing, but it's actually how I recorded my first album.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
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I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.
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I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.
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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
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I don't think I'd be a very good parent. I'd be too honest.
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I felt like I got more comfortable on 'Idol' when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.
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If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always slightly bittersweet because as much as there's nice things in terms of seeing them again, the town has changed without you, and you're no longer a part of it.
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Anyone can forget about talent, but if you're also a good person, your name will be remembered for a long time.
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If I roll my eyes and mutter, if I clutch at my heart and scream in horror like a third-rate actress chewing up a mad scene, I do it in private and nobody sees but the bathroom mirror.
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I actually wanted to go to medical school. I actually wanted to be a laboratory biologist. I wanted to study. And I really wanted to find a cure for cancer. My grandmother had died of cancer. And I was always very good at the sciences. And I thought I would go and try and discover the cure for cancer.
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I don't think I make decisions as an actor based on what I think the fans will or will not want at this point.
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You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
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Creativity comes from the freedom to fail. And freedom to fail comes from experimentation, and that's what gives something its individuality. And, you know, I think her courage, which is the positive way of interpreting it, or bloody-mindedness, which is the negative, is part of what gives her real value as an artist.
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You have to buy what you're selling. If you don't buy what you're selling, nobody will.
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You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.
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An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
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No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.
