Ethan Embry Quotes
I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I hated my big hair. I always wore it straight.
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Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.
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You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.
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Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
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If you don't feel clean, it affects everything you do; you can't even focus right.
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I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.
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I don't look at Instagram. I don't have much to do with social media.
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I have no message.
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While I was in high school, I started working professionally and got an agent.
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I played for a long time, and there's not many guys I would say, 'O.K., take any shot you want.'
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Every American has the freedom to choose a particular lifestyle, but that doesn't mean every American has to embrace a particular lifestyle as equally worthy.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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In your thinking be a goal setter, but in your actions be a goal getter.
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In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.
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But this same process of the old teaching the young can also cause errors and false conclusions to accumulate with the passage of time. One should therefore study ancient writings, not so much in the hope of finding lost wisdom as in the hope of locating the origin of errors that have been, and still are, accepted truths.
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I went to public school for like, one day. I don't get it. Everybody tries to be exactly the same. I think being an outsider is a good thing.
