Paul Desmond Quotes
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
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I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.
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People assume a lot of things about gymnasts - that the girls work too hard, it's way too much for them, they are too young to work so hard.
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Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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Poking fun at other people's beliefs, while it may seem frivolous and offensive, is a non-negotiable right. It is a principle that underpins free speech, the basis for progress.
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My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding.
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Hanson plays music that is very much a part of everything.
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On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people who are not quite sure that they are getting it right.
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It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
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But remember, when it comes to friends, it's not how much time you spend with them, just how you spend it!
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The least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to.
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I'm not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post.And it means nothing to the audience. I'll chop limbs off. I'll put an arm where a leg should be. I'll do anything.
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I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
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Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry.
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Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.
