Paul Desmond Quotes
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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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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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I nitpick details.
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I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.
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Isn't she lovely made from love?
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Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.
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All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else is fake.
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'Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face.' Thus do I challenge the human race. Bombastes: So have I heard on Afric's burning shore, A hungry lion give a grievous roar; The grievous roar echo'd along the shore. King: So have I heard on Afric's burning shore Another lion give a grievous roar, And the first lion thought the last a bore.
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Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.
