Erich Leinsdorf Quotes
The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.
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I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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I am a reserved guy and need somebody to pep me up every day, Upsi does that job perfectly. She is very vivacious and outspoken, so we blend very well. We both love travelling, and we have a thing for adventure. We love being outdoors and like to ride our own boat rather than being rowed by someone else.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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I don't quite have the luxury of cherry-picking - I have to see what comes my way. But I have always been picky.
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never got to hear speak in films would never not speak in real life.
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I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.
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If you're 15 and you tell someone a secret, they can put it up on Facebook. If you make a mistake, someone films it on their mobile and puts it up on YouTube. When you're 15, you deserve privacy.
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Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
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The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.
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I don't like modeling, but in terms of the places I got to visit, it was great.
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At 14, you think you compete, you retire and you get a job. I didn't think gymnastics was a career that was going to change my life.
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Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.
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I like the fact that some of your favorite Broadway musicals are not made into movies.
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Name recognition takes time.
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I felt like I'd culturally arrived when a character on the HBO show 'True Blood' was reading a hardback of 'Heartsick' at Sookie's kitchen table.
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I go through the motions of living in society
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I'm not the kind of guy who wakes up angry.
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The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.
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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster.
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The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.
