Eric Stonestreet Quotes
My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
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I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
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You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.
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Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.
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I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.
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Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
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The business of education has layed the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form of our government . . . . He must be taught to love his fellow creatures in every part of the world, but he must cherish with a more intense and peculiar affection the citizens of Pennsylvania and of the United States.
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There was a moment, a few weeks after I signed, that it actually hit me. I was signed to a major label.
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My dad had a retail business in Leavenworth, Kansas, and there's a whole bunch of prisons there, so it was a backdrop of my childhood, these ominous prisons sitting off the road.
