Hector Elizondo Quotes
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can't draw too much attention to Nikita because she's an assassin.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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A different language is a different vision of life.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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The script is always the main preparation for me. Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it, but if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.
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Rutherford was a historian, after all, and secretly enjoyed it when the truth did injury to modern sensibilities.
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Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.
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I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.
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You were doing a sadistic little disservice to your country.
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With drama, you know if you're having a true moment, but in comedy, if somebody doesn't laugh, then you know you're not being funny. That's a really fun challenge, and that's what draws me to comedy.
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I tend to be on the quiet side. I think I would have been bigger if I had a big mouth.
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I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
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The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.
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The camera is the instrument that brings the inner passion and the outward event into harmony with one another, this linking, or, rather, this coincidence, is successfully brought about, then we find one of the things that no image-making medium can accomplish to the same degree.
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With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.
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L.A. was never me. Nashville is my home.
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Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
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Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.
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I think you can tell the human condition better through comedy.
