Robert Wilson Lynd Quotes
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an incurable cancer, boy, don't accept that. You know, go and get a second opinion.
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My college friends call me Karu, which is the worst. Only in our country can we make a short form for a short name. But otherwise, I've never had a pet name all my life. But now, in official meetings, someone will call me KJo. And I'll judge that person in my head. Just call me Karan.
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I was born on TV, meaning that's where I caught my break. So that's where I always have to be smart and revisit that medium as much as I can.
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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Life should be great rather than long.
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And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
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I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.
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Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can,Come saddle your horses, and call up your men;Come open the West Port, and let me gang free,And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
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I think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known.
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It's not a bad idea to have gossip and talking points in athletics.
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I need to ask the questions the people at home want answered.
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When doing theater, you have to find great satisfaction in the small things. There's going to be a repetition and a redundancy night after night, but it's the small variations in those moments - a word, a tone of voice, the smallest sense of enlightenment that can happen in an instant onstage - that will be the most rewarding.
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My old man worked for Pan American.
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I realized the secret to success is finishing! And not just finishing, but finishing strong!
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You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
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True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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I've always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children's-book illustration scene, because I don't work in line and wash.
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It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.
