George Plimpton Quotes
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For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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Teaching children about entrepreneurship is much like imparting any other skill or piece of knowledge. You will provide them with ways to experience how entrepreneurship works, and you guide them toward the subjects or areas they seem to show an interest in.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.
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A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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I am highly offended by the total lack of acknowledgement of my contribution to Laker success.
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I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my honor.
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On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world through that person's eyes and have a strong sense of the inner logic of their acts and decisions, wacky or wrongheaded though they might be. In that sense, I think there's some of me in all of them.
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I have a very healthy relationship to my work, and I find that if a scene is working, no matter how intense it is, you have the catharsis on screen, and you can let it go. I think it's, if at the end of the day you feel like you haven't cracked it, that's when you go home and it's more difficult to switch off.
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I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.
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People either think Hodor is a very easy character to play or a very difficult one; there's no in between. But it's a lot of fun having to completely switch personalities inside four seconds, with no words. That's a joy for an actor to get to show all that complex emotion in such a short space of time.
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I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.
